Malaya Tribune, 28 December 1949

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    59 1 MALAYA Tribune I 'Jy THE I PBOPLE T" Bow T«fc Tribune" S'pom MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Phone 5811/3 Nine Line* rubli*hp.\ tirju.tuneoHHiy at tungapore, Kuaia Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang EIGHT PAGES SINGArubiE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice Glover, Malaya Tribune Office, 143
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    French To Hand Power To Bao Dai On Friday
    281 1 Reuter U.P. SAIGON, Tuesday. THE French authorities in Indo-China wil\ hand over uower to the Vietnam Government, headed by ex-Emperor Bao Dai ol Annam, on Friday. Ministers of the new state met here this morning to put finishing touches to the
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    Prisoners Killed— In Black Maria
    151 1 Reuter. CALCUTTA. Tues. Three prisoners were killed and several others, including a;i armed guard received bullet injuries, when prisoners bring carried in a closed police van in North Calcutta suddenly fell upon their guards in an attempt to cscap--. The prisoners, who were being carried
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    BEVIN IN PARIS
    18 1 A.P. PARIS, Tues. British Foreign Secretary, Eraeat Bevin arrived bore today enroute to Colombo. A.F\
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    FEDERATION POLICE DETAIN EX-P.I.M. CHIEF
    199 1 Documents Taken From His Home Tribune Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. MR. Hadi Noor 27-year-old ex-president of the Pcrsatuan Indonesia Mcrdeka (Free Indonesia Organisation- has been detained for interrogation by the police. Mr. Hadi Noor, Chairman of the Indonesian Committee to celebrate the birth of
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    EGYPT'S WARNING ON SYRIA
    86 1 U.P. CAIRO, Tues. Any attemptby Iraq and Jordan to annex Syria in a move to create a -greater Syria" will be jointly opposed by Egypt and Saudi Arabia, informed sources said today. They said considerable importance was attached to the recent declaration by Egyptian Prime Minister
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    HOLLAND WILL SUPPORT U.S.I.'s UN APPLICATION
    104 1 LAKE SUCCESS. Tues. The Netherlands Government declared today that it would warmly support an application, by the new United States of Indonesia for United Nations membership. In a letter to Mr. Trygve Lie. United Nations Secretary General. Holland's United Nations representative. Dr. H Riemens,
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    Crackers Explode 4 Killed
    75 1 Reuter. 1 BERLIN, Tues. Four i |>er>jii» were killed and j i lour severely injured to- night by a Are in an Rust t Berlin department store 1 1 caused by exploding tire- 1 works. Two fire brigades L fought the flames for two hours and
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    UNITED STATES TO RECOGNISE U.S.I. TODAY
    58 1 A.P. WASHINGTON. Tues. The United States made ready today to give both diplomatic backing and economic aid to the new Indonesian Republic in the hope it will help restore stability in communist threatened Southeast Asia. The announcement of formal American recognition of the new
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    BERNAL FOR DELHI
    23 1 Reuter. LONDON. Tues. Professor J. D. Derail left by air today to attend the Indian Science Congress in Delhi. —Reuter.
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    Johore To Validate Scholarship Awards
    177 1 JOHORE BAHRU, Tuesday. FOLLOWING a query by Dr. Ismail bin Abdul Rahman at the recent State Council session, the Government is planning to bring a bill before the Council to validate the acts and deeds of an Interim Committee which was formed under the authority
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    INDONESIAN FLAG FLIES IN SINGAPORE
    61 1 The red and white flag of the Republic of Indonesia was seen flying thw morning from top of Dr. Oetoyo's Office at Elliot Road arid the Indonesia Office at 3-C Raffles Place. It is also flying side by side with the Dutch tricolour at the
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    JAP FLEET
    25 1 Reuter. TOKYO. Tues.—Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur today announced the allocation of £8.600.000 as United States assisstancc to Japan in rebuilding her merchant neet.-Reuter.
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    AU REVOIR
    24 1 A.P. MALTA, Tues. Princess Elizabeth was among British naval wives who waved farewell to H. M. S. Schooners at noon today. —A.P.
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    QUIRINO HAS DATE WITH CUPID
    131 1 U.P. NEW YORK. Tues.—Conchita Gaston, beautiful Filipino opera singer, today laughed at reports that sne may wed Philippine President Elpidio Quirino soon. "Those are just gossip and rumours—like, in the columns here," she said. But the 22-year-old brunette who recently made her debut in the
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    McKERRON SENDS GREETINGS TO INDONESIA
    112 1 Mr. P. A. B. McKerron. Officer Administering the Government in Singapore, has sent a congratulory message to the United States of Indonesia through the Singapore representative who was present at the inauguration ceremony at Jakarta yesterday. The message reads: "On this great day of the
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    TWO KILLED
    36 1 Reuter. SAIGON. Tuesday. Two French so'diers were killed and a French officer's wife and 16 Vietnam citizens injured by a hand-grenade thrown by a terrorist in a cinema at Baria, on Christmas night.— Reuter.
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    INDIAN MURDERED
    24 1 KOTA TINGGI, Today. An Indian shopxeeper wai stabbed to death by an unknown assailant in nis shop t% miles from Endau yesterday.
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    WORK MORE, TALK LESS, SAYS OETOYO
    126 1 Tribune Staff Reporter Dr. R. Oetoyo, Representative of the Republic of Indonesia, sneaking at a 'Makan-ket-chil' organised by the Singapore Indonesian community to celebrate the transfer of Sovereignty to the United States of Indonesia, yesterday, urged local Indonesians to 'work more and talk less.
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    ALTRUISM
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    Yugoslavs Urged To Bolster Air Raid Defence
    246 1 U.P. and Reuter. BELGRADE Tuesday. Interior Minister Alexander Rankovic asked today for a "mass movement" to strengthen Yugoslavia's antiaircraft and air raid defences. In a speech before the Yugoslav Parliament which lasVd more than an hour, Rankov.c also announced that the government will
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    DEATH STALKS AMERICA
    61 1 U.P. CHICAGO. Tues. The nation wound up the threeday Christmas holiday early this morning with at least 533 persons killed in accidents that ranged from choking at the dinner table to highway crashes that claimed 371 lives. A late check showed that fires killed 59 persons, plane
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    Jungle Battle 2 P.C.'s Die
    69 1 STOP PRESS YONG PENG, Today. Two policemen were killed when a police jung.e squa.l a Lacked a large force of bandits in their camp in the 'Kiuang area yesieroay. The bandits fled alter a short battle. The police took possession of the camp and discovered
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    JAPAN SET FOR PRIVATE IMPORT TRADE
    300 2 A.A.P. TOKIO, Tuesday. TEN. Douglas MacArthnr today announced that U private imports will be established in Japan from Jan. 1, 1950. The Supreme Commander has authorised the transfer of control of the equivalent of U5567,000,000 in pound sterling and United States doHars to the
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    WORLD TIN PLATE OUTPUT DOWN
    76 2 A.P. NEW YORK, Tues.—World production of Un prate in October this year was estimated at 172.000 tons, or less than half of the normal output. The decrease was said to be due to the United States steel strike, where tin plate output fell to 71.963
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    JAP TEXTILES TOP THE LIST
    84 2 A.P. MANCHESTER, Tues. Japan's cotton piece goods exports topped those of the LTnited States and the Tnited Kingdom in the second quarter of this year, the Biitish Cotton Board estimated. An increase in world cotton goods trade during the second quarter was due almost entirely
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    INDIES COPRA EXPORTS UP
    64 2 A.P. WASHINGTON. Tues. Indonesian copra exports for November were 19.983 long tons, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports. That was a 25' I increase over the exports for October. Shipments in January through November totalled 276.901 tons. This was a 25' increase over the same period
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    Straits Steamship Co. Ltd.
    93 2 STPATTS STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED. Salient points in accounts as at end 1946, 1947, and 1948 arc: Profit from Sept. 1, 1944 to December 31, 1946 was $440,--277 (6.6'/,). Recoveries to 31.1,.46. from ships lost or sold brought in $3,531,532 in excess of book values. Fleet, dockyard
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    U.S. SUGAR
    30 2 A.P. WASHINGTON, Tues.—The Agriculture Department has announced that it will permit 7,500,000 short tons, raw value, of sugar to be sold in the domestic market during 195C. A.P.
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    U. S. Investments Abroad Earn 15%
    151 2 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. private business investment abroad which President Truman wants to stimulate through government guarantees—were reported to be already earning 15 per cent, after foreign taxes. The Commerce Department said that was the average return on a total of U5510,000,000,000 direct foreign investments—operations abroad
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    REOPENED
    21 2 The share market < for the (hrivtmas holidays opened again this morning;. The following are the share prices announced last weekend.
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    Teluk Kruin Pay 50%
    39 2 TELUK KRriN TIN LIMITED working on tribute made 65.8' j for the year ending October 31. 1949. Recommended final dividend of 29'; makes 50', for the year. Not liquid assets $153,816 99 cents per share.
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    CANADIAN BOOTS
    56 2 A.P. NEW YORK. Tues.—Canadian boot and Jflrow production in September totalled 3,377.000 pairs, compared with 3,177,030 in August and 2.811,000 in September, 1948, reports the Tanners Council of America. Output in the first nine months reached 27.545,000 pairs, an increase of 16 percent over production in the same
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    817 2 SINGAPORE FRI. INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 2.15 2.25 x<l Alex: Bricks Pref. 2.40 2.50 Ord. 2.22 »2 2.30 B. B. Petrol 35/- 36/B.M. Trustees 7.50 8.50 Con. Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/3 Ord. 15/3 16/6 E. Utd. Assur. 39 25 40.25xd Est. Trust Fed. Dispensary 6.50 7.00 Fraser
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      343 2 ON YOUR RADIO TODAY BLUE NETWORK ««rj, f^<yj n B C hinese i i ogramme* ENGLISH PROGRAMMES 12.45 p.m. Sig. Tun.. Opening w nnc l *.Erog. Nummary in 1,00 p.m. Dance music; 1.30 pvn TWTITTim/riWir Mandarin: 12.48 Mandarin SeleeNews; 1-45 Eight music; 2.00 KliU .NEjlWUltli lions; 1.00 News in .Mandarin,
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    SMILES AND TEARS
    66 3 Santa Clans did not J Mlfiiirtnn i.oapti o- dur- i bjg iiis reeept visit i<» th«- CtrHirj Bo ii»r Mm boy S Itop) in |kt «r«»n lung, 1 i'hrU.ma- fevopgfci gOvy j afceer and a present :rom old santa. But Baby in tfee cot (below) takes a
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    A FAIRYLAND FOR CHILDREN
    80 3 The compound of ot. Foseph's Cnuic'.i, Victoria Street waa a fairy ground yesterday when about 1.000 childien" of the parish were entertained. Befoi c Father Christmas rived to distribute the gifts, children enjoyed themseles in the numerous sideshows, games and competitions. A very enjoyable evening was
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    LOST: STICKS OF DYNAMITE
    42 3 The Singapore engineering lit m of Garamans (Malaya) Lid. have iost 1.702 sticks- or lynamite from their Magaitore at TcWc Paku. at man Mci vi Besar. neai Chjogi Tfce loan was reported by a European on Christmas Eve,
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    Man Dies During Walk
    58 3 v a h ese yesterday fell down while walking along Onan Poad and died before the ambulance arrived A Ch£ wcman knocked down by a motor cycle at the junctSi oi Liang Seah Street and North Bridge Road refused do vn by a of Jalan Sultan
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    McKerron spends 60 mins with French painters
    121 3 REPRODUCTIONS of famous paintings by French masters, David, Manet, Cezanne and Picasso are on view at Raffles Institution. Mi. P.A.B. McKenon, Officer Administering the Government, who opened the exhibition yesterday and Mrs. McKenon spent an hour admiring the 272 works of 42 French
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    NOT TOO LATE
    32 3 The Ceylon Tamils' Associa lion of Singapore will hold a Chiistmas Social and Concert, tonight at 7 o'clock at No. 11, Handy Road. The programme will include Indian dances.
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    Trapped Planter 'Played Dead'
    221 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A KEDAH planter, wounded in a bandit ambush A yesterday saved his life by "playing dead. Tte bandits took his pistol, set fire to his taxi and Went T°hf 'Malay Uxi-driver was killed The pjantiM is the assistant manager of Anak Kuhm Estate.
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    STORMY WEATHER
    32 3 The pilots of four Royal Singapore Flying Club who spent the Chustmas week-end -at Kluang. weturned back by bad weather when returning to Singapore yesterday. They are due th»s mcrning.
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    Going Home
    36 3 Mr J F. Nicoll, Hongkong Colonial Secretary. going home on furlough arrived m Singapore yesterday. With him is his son, aged Mr Nicoll, who xs staying at Government House leaves Singapore at noon tomorrow.
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    Winnie's Good Deed
    42 3 i Thirty-four lads of Singapore Boys' Town pose ,n front of the an.--i indanee presented to the Town by Miss Winnie S Mcl) rmott, daughter ol i I U»e well-known retired businessman, Mf- J McDermott, on Boxing i Day.
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    CITY FATHERS WILL KNOW WHY ON FRIDAY
    136 3 PONTIAN TUNNEL FLOP MUNICIPAL Commissioners meeting this Friday will have to consider and 11 choose between the two reports of the Pontian Tunnel Committee the majority report by Mr. C. J. F. Ess and Mr. F. C. Smith and the minority report by
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    'Snap' vote for water body
    199 3 SINGAPORE may have a Water Board very much the London Metropolitan Water Board, if City Fathers, aP i P 0 r °se e t up 1 a S0 JSpeciar Committee to make snap decisions on matters concerned with the Ci.y's eighty-million dol ai wa (r
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    NEW YEAR PARTY FOR PATIENTS
    70 3 Patients of the Tan Tocl; Seng Hospital will be the guests at the fourth annual New Year party organised by the Rev. C. A. Davidson. President of the Independent Missionary Movement. After a service and party at 7, Parry Avenue (oil Yeo Chu Kang Road)
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    TO-MORROW'S TARGET
    599 4 HID you listen to the King's speech? It was simple and unafraid. There were no excuses, no attempts to hide unpleasant facts. The neople of the Commonwealth were told what they already know—that they are up against it and that no amount of outside help will substitute for
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    THE GERMANS WERE PLANNING TO KIDNAP TITO AND ME
    3398 4 WE had much to tell cadi other. As a start, I handed Tito the letter which I had brought him from the Prime Minister. He hdd had no warning of it, and I watched his face closely to sec how he
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    WILL INDONESIA BECOME ANOTHER BURMA?
    1780 5  -  by ANDREW ROTH ALTHOUGH situated in the steamy torrid zone, the infant Republic of the United States of Indonesia is already being subjected to the wintry blasts of the •cold war." The U.S.A. smiles proudly at the infant republic, the first one in tuu nhdwifed
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    There's A Man Ready For Mao's Shoes
    717 5 A.P. AN odd thing has happened along with the rise of Mao Tzc-tung as the No 1 Communist leader in Asia. This, is the "Build up" the Russians have given a Mongol named Choi Bolsan. For a quarter of a century he has
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      57 5 LFL ABXEK ff by Al Capp LIFE. I WrtHbWJMW») < U AN' ft 5 f I COULD LIVEOVEP If CHW I COULD J THAR'S >f \WW>B PAST /fJ .MADE A J S ONE CU' J > LIVE" THAT < "§3® NOTH!N' <J, tfC^ TERRIBLE. < f FAULT''V3s TV4AI S NOBODY
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    Little Minister
    49 6 Little Renee Martz, in Southampton, England, i«. nut describing a big ftsh. JSht's showing how she goes about the busim of being an evangelist. Xh; precocious child went to England irom America to see ii she couldn't bring some of thai oidtime retfjrJqpj la Uk Hrltlsll peopit-.
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    SIX SKULLS AND THE SLAIN KING
    371 6 BANGKOK. Tuesday CIX skulls, each with a bullet hole in the forehead, are the focus of attention these days in the seemingly endless trial of the men charged with slotting the assassination of the boy King of biam. The skulls are of six derelicts
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    WHEN WIFE MEETS ANOTHER MAN...
    251 6 How Not To Behave —By A judge ADVICE on how husbands and wives should try to A live together was given by Mr. Justice CroomJohnson at Sussex Assizes at Lewes when dealing with the case of a man said to have attacked his wife with
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    EINSTEIN RELEASES ANOTHER THEORY
    235 6 A.P. NEW YORK, Tuesday. nROFESSOR Albert Einstein, whose theory of reP faHvitv made the atom bomb possible, disclosed the universe tick. The famous 70 year old scientist stumped his colleaeues in mathematics and physics when he first announced his theory of mass and energy in 1945.
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    MILITARY BUDGET
    36 6 A.P. PARIS, Tues. -The French Government won approval in Parliament last night for its 420,000,000,000 fianc (US$l.--218.000,000) militaiy budget. The vote was 404 to 183 with only the Communists and their affiliated groups opposed.—A.P.
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    CHILDREN SAY THEY HEARD ANGELS SING
    115 6 A.P. NUREMBURG, Tues. Children of Thurn said yesterday they had seen Christmas Eve vision of the Holy Family and had heard the angels sing. Six of them first reported seeing Mary last October. This time, they said, they saw a virtual tableau. They said
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    JOBS WAITING
    28 6 ROME Tues.-The International Refugee Organisation yesterday sent by air to Karachi a group of 54 refugees from Eastern Europe for whom jobs are waiting in Pakistan.
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    SPANISH BANK WORKERS WANT BIG PAY RISE
    86 6 Reuter. MADRID, Tues. Fifty thousand Bank employees, throughout Spain are demanding a 51 per cent increase in basic pay, plus a 30 per cent rise in cost of living allowance. Recently a group of lowlevel employees, demonstrated outside "the Ministry of Labour in
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    HUNGER STRIKE THREAT BY JAP PROFESSORS
    100 6 Reuter—A.A.P. TOKYO. Tues. —Professors of Tokyo University. Japan's ii:st ranking university in Tokyo, have decided to start a hunger strike to demand vi .it -end '..onuses. Piesident of the University, Shigeru Nambara. who is now in the United States attend ing the International Education
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    TWO MORE VICTIMS
    38 6 Reuter. VIENNA, Tues. The mined barbed wire fence erected by Hungary along the Austrian Frontier claimed two more victims when a Hungarian girl was fatally hurt and her fiance seriously, wounded by an explosion.— Reuter.
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    PENANG BEAT PERAK BY ONE SET
    393 7 RETAIN LEONG SIN NAM TROPHY From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Tuesday. DEX.tNG made a brilliant recovery to retain the Leong Sin Nam Cup today the last day of tiie Triangular Badminton Tournament between Perak, Sclangor and Penang. Perak was a very close second. The
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    FOOTBALL ENGLISH RESULTS
    211 7 Reuter. LONDON. Following are toil v's lootball results:— KNT.MSH LKACIE -IBST DIVISION Arsenal 0. Manchester U. 0. \.«'on V. 1, Wolverhampton 4. Blackpool 2. Burnley 0. rvrbv 4. Birmingham L Fulham 0. Everton 0. Liverpool 2. Chelsea a Manchester C. 1. Huddersriehl J. Middlesbrough 1« Newcasi te
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    PERAK BEAT SPORE TO WIN WOMEN C'SHIP
    98 7 The Perak Women's Basketball Team won the Malayan women championship last night by beating Singapore by 40—17. Mrs. Aw Kow gave away the prizes. It was announced that the next basketball meet will be held in K. Lumpur. There will be two matches
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    Malayans v. Siamese Promotion
    195 7 LOCAL fight fans will get the opportunity of judging the prowess of Singapore's boxers against their Siamese counterparts on Friday night when a Malayan versus Siamese promotion makes up the card. This, the last promotion of the year, has been approved by the Singapore Boxing Board
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    S. Africa Needs 192 To Save Innings Defeat
    287 7 Reuter. JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday. COI TH AFRICA needed 102 runs with eight 0 wickets in hand to avert an innings defeat, at the close of the third day s play in their first Test against Australia, today. Forced to follow after i their
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    EMPIRE XI WIN BY 10 WICKETS
    89 7 CALCUTTA, Tues. The Commonwealth cricketers today beat the Bengal Governor's Eleven here by 10 wickets. Overnight the home side had lost one wicket for 57 in their second innings when holding arreas of 179 —122 to 301—on the first innings. The Governor's Eleven saved
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    WEIGHTS FOR 14 RACES
    647 7 Below are the weights for Saturday, the third day of the Penang Turf Club's X'nias-Ne» Year Meeting: HORSES CLASS 5 Dl\. 2— Fl RS. STB. MAINTAIN PEGGY'S CHOICE 9.00 THIRTEEN B.IJ OI X LOVE (late Blemish) TECHNIQUE •••j CATHERINE Mg AIBGALE IBlsh SONG 8.02 STAR PERFORMER
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    AMPON WINS
    108 7 CALCUTTA. Tue;:. Felicism v. Ami»o»i, Philippine;., beat Narwh Kumar, India, 6—2, 6—4. x 0. in the third round of the men's singles when the Asian lawn tennis championships were resumed here today. Men's doubles (third round*) R, Abdessalam and P. Remy, France, beat Iftikhar Ahmed aid A. H.
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    VICTORIA JUST FAILS TO REACH N.S.W. TOTAL
    113 7 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE. Tues. Victoria (353) just failed to reach the New South Wales first innings total of 300 when Uieir Sheffield Shield match was continued today, but they claimed nine second innings wickets of New South Wales for 122 before stumps were drawn.
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    SLOW WORK AT PENANG
    80 7 By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winners The No. 2 grass track was opened lor training this morning but only two horses were set against the watch. Star iciiuriii.. worked with Our Lover over two furlongs which they covered in 26 seconds. Following were cantered:
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    22 7 Mrs. Rosalind and Family thank all those who gave wreaths and attended the funeral of Donald, Cecilia and Cynthia. Deeply regretted.
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    U.S.I PROCLAIMED IN JAKARTA
    451 8 Sobs Are Heard During Flap Hoisting Ceremony Reuter. JAKARTA, Taesday. INDEPENDENCE of the United States of Indonesia wa; proclaimed nere today in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta Civil and military administration was tor.na.l.\ n r youthful Sultan Hamengku Buwano of Jogjakarta, acii"K rr.inc !N»insi of Uic
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    Indonesian Troops Control Capital
    181 8 Reuter. Jakarta, Tues.- Indonesian troops took over the new named capital, Jakarta, today a few hours heroic Holland was to end 340 years of" coon ml rule in the Pacific by transfer! ing sovereignty to the United States of Indonesia. Control was turned over in a
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    INAUGURATION OF U.S.I. IS HISTORIC EVENT
    115 8 Reuter. Nehru NEW DELHI. Tues. Indian Prime Minister Pandit Nehru described the inauguration of the United States of Indonesia today as an historic event in Asia and the world. He said a "kind, brave and lovable people" were coming to their own to •shouldet
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    MAO'S MOSCOW VISIT HAILED BY PEKING
    90 8 Reuter. HONGKONG, Tues. Mao Tsc-tung s visit to Moscow has been hailed throughout Communist China as an event bringing "joy" to wide sections oi the people. Peking radio reported last night that the visit was the most discussed topic in factories, shops, barracks and
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    Dutch Bells Peal At Birth Of U.S.I.
    394 8 Reuter. AMSTERDAM. Tv.esday. QUEEN Juliana of the Netherlands in a busirusslik Q but 31-minute ceremony today stapled the transfer of sovereignty to the Republic of the United States of Indonesia— and a Mrtv state in South-East Asia was born. In a brief speech,
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    LAST NATIONALIST CAPITAL FALLS
    164 8 U.P. Reuter. TAIPEH, Tuesday. THE Chinese Nationalist government today an--1 nounced the loss of Chengtu. the last "capital" it had tried to maintain on the Chinese main- lanti. The Defense Ministry said Nationalist troops had withdrawn "safely" on Monday night from the Szechuan provincial capital in
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    JULIANA GREETS SOEKARNO
    85 8 Reuter. AMSTERDAM. Tuesday. Queen Juliana today cabled greetings and good wishes to President Soekarno of ihe Repub'ic of the United States of Indonesia. 'On this moving day on which Indonesia has been given its independence.- I send you. Mr. President, my best wishes for the happine---and prosperity
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    MacA DENIES RUSSIAN GERM WAR STATEMENT
    96 8 A.P. U.P. TOKYO- Tues. General Mac Arthur's headquarters said today there arc no known cases in which the Japanese used humans in germ warfare experiments. The Japanese did some experiments with animals. As far as is known none of the American prisoners of war
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    PIRATES TAKE SHIP
    35 8 A.P. HONG KONG. 7 ucs. A small Chinese vessel, the Tak Hee. was reported today to have been seized by pirates who boarded the ship 15 miles east of Hong Kong.— A.P.
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    KLUANG WEEDING
    19 8 Mr. and Mrs. George D'cruz who were married at St. Louis' Church, Kluang, on Bo xing Day.
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    Booby Trap Explodes In Ipoh Cemetery: Three Die, 22 Hurt
    268 8 IPOH. Tuesday. Twenty-live Chinese were injured today when a booby trap exploded at the Pt;i£i Overseas Chinese Cemetry, three miles from Ipoh. Th'-ee of them, one a boy of thirteen, died on the w»v to hosnit*". Among the injured were
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    CHIANG PRUNES DOWN GOVT. TO SIX DEPTS.
    99 8 A.P. TAIPEH, Tues. Official sources said today the Nationalist government will be peeled down to six tsscnUal ministries shortly. The sources, which were not named, said the ministries would be foreign affairs, finance, communication.-, national defence, education anr] interior. In addition a commission
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    CHILDREN GROW ON VITAMIN B-12
    72 8 A.P. NEW YORK. Tues. The first use of the vitamin B-12 to make children grow is reported in Science, official journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. B-12 is the vitamin discovered two years ago that relieves pernicious anemia. It has been
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    ADVERSE BALANCE OF TRADE—$ 196 MILLION
    291 8 Tribune Market Reporter MALAYA'S adverse balance of tiade rose to 111 neaiiy $196 million at the end of November, thoufjh the volume of trade increased by nearly Sll million. Exports rose by $4 .j million while imports were up by about $6 X 2
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    RUSSIAN MAJOR RUNS AMOK, KILLS NINE
    207 8 U.P. BERLIN. Tues. A Russian major wearing skis walked into a winter resort on Christmas Eve and turned a machine gun on Communist guests, killing nine persons and injuring "many" others, a Western sports newspaper reported today. The paper Sonntag Sportforum said the Major
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    TWO TRAMPLED TO DEATH
    44 8 U.P. NAPLES. Tues. Two women were trampled to death when hundreds of persons attending the traditional Christmas midnight mass it? the small church of Termoli were thrown into a panic by a firecracker set off by a ten year-old girl.—U.P.
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    UN INFORMED
    34 8 A.P. LAKK SUCCESS. Tues. Dr H. Riemens. acting head cf the Netherlands delegation to the United Nations, gave Secretary General Try Lie a letter officially announcing the trans'cr of sovereignty in Indonesia.—A.P.
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    TREMORS FELT
    26 8 Reuter. TOKYO. Tues. The Tokyo area was rocked by earthquake tremors for more than two minutes at 0 p.m. tonight (9 a.m. gmt). Reuter.
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL
    41 8 LXHIBITION OF FRKM paintinus. uafflea institution Hail, lv a,m. to 5 p.m. STAMI OBU ilib, extraordi nary general meeting, 331. North Bridge Road. 5.30 p.m. BYLON TAMILS ASSOC I TION, Christmas Social, 11. Handy Road. 7 p.m.
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    CINEMA
    145 8 CATHAY: "Knit; of th*" Rocket Men" at 10.30. 1.30. 1.00 8.45. and 9.30 p.m. CAI'ITOL: "Beautiful 'Blondo from Bashful Bend" al 11. 1.4'. 4. 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. PAVILION: "Kind H'-artn Coronets" with Tlec Guinness at 2. 4.15, and 6.30 p.m. BEX: Solo" (Malay) at 11. L45. 6.30 and
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    SPORT
    22 8 HOI KtV: SRC v. Indian* on padang. BUGBY: SCC "A" v. Singapore R.E.s on padang: R.A.l'. Tengah v. Changi at Chaiigi.
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