Malaya Tribune, 14 February 1950

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    60 1 MALAYA Tribune BY THE. > PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Ttk Trfent* r i LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone s*ll/3 Published simultaneously at ingapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1950 TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDOS REPRESENTATIVE W. Maurice Glover, Malaya
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    Net Spreads Over Red A-Spy Ring
    120 1 Reuter ;>( >N, Mon. —Police ana counter espionage agents here have spread a wide net for the men to whom atom scientist Kiaus Fuchs is aileg- > have handed over atomic -t.ned for the Kremlin. Some of his contacts, according to his alleged confession
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    COMMUNIST POSTERS
    25 1 '-cniwiumsc posters were found by the police at the junction of Bartley Road and Upp r Serangoea Road at 11 p.m., last night.
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    40 JAPS DROWNED
    29 1 U.P. SAGA Japan, Mon. —Forty sons, including a number of school children, werĕ feared drowned today when a boat capsized and sank in the Chikugo river.—TJ.P.
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    Malaya's Highest Hire Crop
    107 1 Reuter. LONDON, Mon.—Malaya's rice crop for the present season is expected to be the highest in the history of the country, the Colonial Office stated tonight. 4 >n the basis of figures from the various states an settlements, the Acting Director of Agriculture, Dr. A .S.S.
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    U.S. GETS READY TO HALT COMMUNISM
    544 1 Joint Chiefs Hand In Secret Report Reuter miiir i'ni+<wi M Mm WASHINGTON, Monday. T HE 1 te States i ?J" efs of Staff today gave President Truman their >eeret views on the halting of Communist expansion in South-East Asia and later told the press
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    KILLERS SOLD CORPSE AS TINNED MEAT?
    89 1 A.P. CELLE. GERMANY, Mon. I —Three Germans accused of killing a man, cutting up his body and selling it on the black market as tinned meat faced trial today on a murder charge. Ernst Romberg for the defence contended that the alleged victim Joseph
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    ATTLEE FINDS WOOING SCOTS IS DIFFICULT
    306 1 Reuter. LONDON, Monday. WHILE last-minute nominations were being filed today, the leaders of both the Labour and Conservative Parties, Mr. Clement Attlee and Mr. Winston Churchill, were making a bid for the votps... j Mr. ChurchilL .was speeding j northwards today for a tally
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    FIRST MAN IN
    35 1 Reuter. LONDON. Mon.—Sir Hugh O'Neill. Ulster Unionist, was today the first candidate to bo returned unopposed as a Member of the new postelection British Parliament. He represents Antrim North. Northern Ireland. .—Reuter.
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    New Year Supplement
    33 1 The Malaya Tribune tomorrow will Include the third Chines? New Year Supplein. nt. Make Rare of getting >sur copy from your vendor or ring the Circulation defmrtmkai 5811. -A_ fc*
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    SABATINI DIES
    36 1 Reuter. LOiNuON. Mon.—t-tafael Sabatini, well-known Italianborn novelist, died in Abe!boden, Switzerland, early todays, it was learned in London. He was 75. Captain blood, a famous sea dog character he created, appeared in several books.—Reuter.
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    IMPORTERS WANT BUTTER OFF CARD
    141 1 Tribune Staff Reporter JjOME big importers of butter are attempting to have tinned butter taken completely off the ration as in the Federation. Others are urging the Government to see that if "wo kinds of butter are allow•d, "free" butter should not st more than
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    MALAY THIEVES
    36 1 'awo iwaiays yesterday followed an Indian after he >ri ft. fo'"* r, inr from a pawn shop in Joo Chia rcoaa ana .ojo.u i..... ot $25 and the gold orna*iatit he had iust redeemed
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    RING CONTROLS BOGUS ENTRY PERMITS
    122 1 A.P. HONGKONG, Mon.—The Philippines government has instruced its consul here to s?ek the co-operation of the Hongkong government in unearthing an organised ring which is issuing bogus •documents to Chinese wishing to enter the Philippines. Dr. Jose Rodriguez said his government has every reason to
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    GOODS FOR RED CHINA DIVERTED TO SINGAPORE
    227 1 A.P. HONGKONG, Monday, f HOUSANDS of tons of heavy material destined for Communist China are being sent for storage in Singapore godowns by a Hongkong firm because the colony has run out of storage space. A 1 1 AAA AAil _1 I I
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    STREET FIGHTING EXERCISE?
    65 1 Twenty-six Army armoured cars and lorries manned by troops armed with bren guiio and rifles lined Rcbinson Road this morning. Gurkha police in full riot mipment stood in front of the vehicles. lncic was a radio police patrol car and an Army jeep equipped with a radio.
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    BANDITS FLEE
    40 1 JOHORE BAHRU, Today. A party of employees of the* British aluminium company escorted by the police, encountered eight uniformed bandits in the Endau area yesterday. Poiice opened fire at the gang who although armed with hand grenades fled.
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    STUDENTS TRAGEDY
    28 1 A.P. BUZISIviAN, MONT An A, Mon. —Seven Montana State college students including two girls were killed in a car which plunged over a mountain cliff today.—A.P.
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    HUSH HUSH A-TALKS END IN UK.
    170 1 Reuter. HARWELL, Berkshire, Mon. The most tightly sealed talks of international scientists in Britain since the war ended yesterday with nothing on record except what lies locked in the brains of these who teck part. Even blottmg paper and scratch pads used in the
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    BRITISH ENVOY GIVES LATEST RUSSIAN NEWS
    104 1 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. -Sir Davia Ke'ly, British Ambassador to Moscow, today gave Foreign Secietary Mr* Ernest Bevin and Washington envoy Sir Oliver Franks a picture of events inside Russia since President Truman announced America was building the hydrogen bomb. Though diplomatic officials were Filent
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    PLANTERS ARE REAL HEROES
    145 1  -  —SIR GEORGE A.P. MELBOURNE, Mon,—The real heroes of the war against the Chinese Communists in Malaya, said Sir George Beharrell, president of Dunlop Rubber, are the English and Scottish planters on the rubber estates. In spite of their nerve-rack-ing existence their morale is superb, Sir George
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    ARMS AID FOR BAO DAI?
    93 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Mon. FYaace has been invited to submit to the State Department a list of arms and military equipment which si might want to be sent 10 the new l\ ench-.sponsored J state cf Vietnam. Department officials said today. It wa3 emohasised here that
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    Tennis Is Interrupted
    57 1 STOP PRESS JOHORE BAHRU, Today. —Two bandits dressed in black fired a shot while a group of Europeans were playing tennis at Reneam yesterday evening. The police immediately rushed to the scene and saw the bandits run away. The police opened fire but the bandits escaped after
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    NEW $15,000 HOME FOR HELPLESS
    119 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE Trengganu Btatca Welfare committee has Bbt aside .*15.».X;0 or a new dcsLtut< Jlcjxi< in Hukit Hew:. Thy new w..t l:c hui't on on C;ghi-:icie plot. T*i:..-/. is 'klatcd in the Co:nln'liee'r rbpbr't a).' lite'J. total r.i 243 garment: IjaVe been made
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    TWELVE-HOUR LIFT ON CRACKER BAN
    72 2 CHINESE boys and girls will have twelve ban-free hours on Chinese New Year's Day to let themselves go with crackers. The Singapore Government yesterday announced that fireworks. except sand crackers, can be let off from seven in-the morning till seven in the evening on Friday.
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    'Mr. Singapore' Weds
    66 2 Mr. Hoon Thye Thin, third son of Mr. and Mrs Hoon Siang Thong was recently married to Miss 1 I Gwendoline Chuhland Lee. only daughter of Mr. and 3 Mrs. Lee Soe Sjong, Mr. Hoon Thye was elected 'Mr. P Singapore 1947' at a Body Building contest
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    Daughter Sues Father For Dowry
    230 2 CEYLON Tamil told the Singapore High Court yesterday that he agreed to give his daughter a dowry of Rs. 15,000 five thousand more than he originally intended—because his prospective son-in-law threatened to call off the wedding. The man. Mr. N. Eliathamby. landowner and insurance agent
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    ARMS FOUND
    33 2 Singapore police over the week-end found a grenade in West Coast Road, two rurty shells in Farrer Park and a .38 pistol near the corner of Ceylon and East Coast Roads.
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    BRANDY BOTTLES
    21 2 Found in Dossesston of 48 bottles of dutiable brandy, a fined 51.000.- by the Third Police Court Magistrate yesterday.
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    NEW ROADS AID FISHERMEN
    57 2 KUALA Lumpur. Mon.—The Kelantan Government have built several roads to ease communications between kampongs. Some of these kampongs were previously inaccessible to motor vehicles during the rainy season. roads have also helped fishermen from the kampong to take their catch out for sale during the monsoon.
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    TO BETTER SHOES
    66 2 g More than on hundred and j shoe makers and 1 officials of the In- dustrial Trading Limited were entertained to a Chinese New Year party given by tiie Company recently at their workshop. Kampong Soopoo Road. Picture shows the manager of the firm and his workmen
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    The War Robbed David Of His People
    294 2 JJEFORE the war, young David Levine, an Australian Jew, had 121 relatives in Poland. About six months ago, David thought he would look up the old people. But post-war Poland was not the land that David knew. First the Germans came smashing through.
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    AT LAST!
    46 2 For the first time in the history of Singapore, the V.M.C.A.. the Y.W.C.A. and the Chinese V.M.C.A. are to dine together on Chinese New Year. Saturday at Orchard Road. Members who wish to attend, should register their names with their Association before Feb. 16.
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    Old Words With New Meanings
    79 2 THE bandits have a dictionary of their own. And in that book, words have strange meanings. For instance, 'liberation' means the 'robbing and killing of innocent people' and democracy' means 'the oppression ot the will of the people.' Radio Malaya broadcasting In Hakka and Cantonese
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    THE BANDIT WAS A — STRAY DOG
    78 2 THE BANDIT WAS A STRAY DOG j/UALA LUMPUR. Mon. While lying in a midnight ambush in a rather 'hot spot' in the Federation, a Kuala Lumpur Auxiliary Policeman heard a rustling in the lallang near him. He sprang to challenge the intruder, to find to his disgust it was only
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    REDS HELD
    26 2 A Chinese member of the Malayan Communist Party and two suspected members have been arrested. Four posters were found in Lorong 25, Gcylang yesterday.
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    ACSU WANT TO START TALKS AGAIN
    158 2 THE Interim Joint Consultative Committee suspended since September last, is to be revived on Feb. 18. Both the Army Civil Service Union and War Department think that the Committee can iron out some of the differences facing them. TV.fl .-WITT- Pv/.n<Tti,.« /-T Tne new
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    A.O.C. ON LEAVE
    35 2 The A.O.C. Malaya, AirVice Marshal. F. J. W. Mellersh, accompanied by Mrs. Mcdlersh '.eft yesterday for Frasers Hill where he will be on leave for the next fortnight, returning on Feb 28.
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    WATER FAMINE: HITS S'PORE
    330 2 CJNCAPOKE faces a water famine. The position is serious. Consumption exceeds supply and i s ing up at an alarming rate. The most ihu the city mains can turn in daily is 30 mi!!i<. :ai lons. In January, Singapore used an averae ft 3117 millions a
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    On Relief
    32 2 Flown from Honoluiuj* ■i to relieve Mr. Gordon Jones, Tan American Airways District Traffic Manager in Singmpofl, who goes on nine we Us leave, is Mr. I'r-.mk j I Chambers.
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    Presenting the colours
    44 3 Sir Henry Ciurney pretests Ihe n, a Colours to the Ist Battalion, >la'a\ Regiment, at Taiping on Sunday. Officers oi |fee j Hattal'on art* seen watch I tng the presentation.—l\ I K. Picture. nntui:u'ii ait* mtii ttitriinjf the presentation.—4\ K. Picture.
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    SCOUTS PLAN GRAND RALLY
    211 3 R.A LUMPUR. Monday. Boy Scouts here are havin's their founder's nay rally at the Victoria In- ition on Wednesday, the vt r sary of the birthday t Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell. Baden-Powell formed his world famous movement in l!* 08. Today it has almost i.a 00.000
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    FOOD ON SHIP WAS BAD, Cort Told
    354 3 TWENTY seamen from the ship Tower Grange 1 yesterday told the Singapore Third Police Court Magistrate, that they refused to rejoin the ship, after shore leave, because the condition of the food they got was bad. The charge against the seamen was that
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    SCRUB TYPHUS
    41 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. —Five cases ot scrub typhus were reported in the Federation during the last week as against seven of the previous week. There ■»a aiso one ease of urban typhus. None of the cases resulted in deaths.
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    RECITAL BY WIFE, HUSBAND
    107 3 DARITONE Professor Shue ■J Tcherw-I and his soprano wife. Professor Shue Ko-ke. will give a recital at the Victoria Memorial Hall this Saturday. They are to sing Chinese Songs by Schubert. Handel and other western composers will also be included in the programme. Prof. Shue Tchen-I
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    RAF HIT OUT, 26 SORTIES IN ONE DAY
    320 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. IN an all-out offensive action against bandits in Perak and Johorc yesterday, the Roya! Air Force carried out 26 sorties and attacked cnenw positions. Bandit positions found in the foothills nfca r the Cameron Highlands Road were plastered by
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    FLOODS SUBSIDE
    30 3 ECU ALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Karak-Tcmerloh Road la now clear of flood waters. The Trlang Road at the 129 th mile is 2 icet 6 inches under waVr.
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    WOMAN KNOCKED MAN DOWN
    85 3 FOUND giu'iy of lighting ir the N«.w World Anuseincnk Park, two Malay women. Salimah hinti Mohamed tWut and Jchara binti Mohamed. were caca lined hve dollars by the third Police Magistrate ye;teiuay. Jaffar bin Yusoff, a Malay youth was acquitted on the same charge. A detective
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    MR. SAMY TELLS UNIONS: UNITE
    147 3 MR. R. K. Samy, Singapore's labour delegate to tho recent ILO Conference in Ceylon, has called for greater unity among trade unions to fortify their bargaining power. Mr. Samy was speaking at a tea-party given recently by 40 local trade unions at the Southern Hotel
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    COMMITTEE
    58 3 The following' have been elect- I ed to the Executive Committee of the Central Council of Ceylonese Association of Johore: Mr. 3. C. Maclntyre: President. He. R. Vice President. Mr. K. Kathiravelu: Hon. Secretary, Mr. K. Nagalingam: Hon. Treasurer; and Committee: Mr. N. K. Pillai. Mr. J. A. Arasaratnam.
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    SALES MANAGER ON BREACH OE TRUST CHARGE
    96 3 The trial opened in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday ol Harold Cecil Batten on a charge of criminal breach of trust and several other charges ol making alterations in the company s duplicate and triplicate receipts. Batten, tin recently sales manager of Lee
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    Some of the members of the International Air Transportation's 3rd Association's 3rd. conf«*re;i,- -e held at the Qantas Coajtetv nee Room at MucDonald Hous They are (left to rifMt: N. Thompson (T.W.A.): Cap! . Mustard (X.L.M.); C. Meril i< :i tAlr France; :m. Saw son (S.A.S.); Tim Knight ( Ai.- «eylon) and van Pelt (K.L.M./. The -onter:Mie< is exptctftd lo last four days. . , –
    60 3 Some of the members of the International Air Transportation's 3rd Association's 3rd. conf«*re;i,--e held at the Qantas Coajtetv nee Room at MucDonald Hous They are (left to rifMt: N. Thompson (T.W.A.): Cap! Mustard (X.L.M.); C. Meril i&lt; :i tAlr France; :m. Saw son (S.A.S.); Tim Knight Ai.- «eylon) and van
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    At raffles Last Night
    57 3 Mrs. F. Crosnier, wife of tlfc local manager for the French steamship line, Messaserfes m;tniiines. snakes uand* with ihe Consul-General oiJbia?;!. iLiiaiig kaar...;'. 1 ai tL cocktail party given by the*compaiv t: V Fifties Hotel. In the centre is Mf. E. Past a!.", th* t wp;.!"
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    FLEET OUT FOR WAR GAMES
    84 3 Units of the British Far East Fleet will sail for Hongkong on Feb. 28 to take part in routine combined exercises at Sibic Bay In the Philippines with units of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The British Fleet which includes the aircraft car- rier. H. M.
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    BOWL OF RICE
    625 4 ALD superstitions die hard, and one which is still very much alive is the belief that the average Malayan, in terms of his own standards of living, is as well off as the Occidental worker who receives several times his pay and enjoys, as a matter of
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    POPE FACES TRIAL OF STRENGTH
    1909 4  -  The frail, ascetic looking head of the Catholic Church, bus reach ed. in the present HoIt Year, the most important spiritual event of his reign. by A CORRESPONDENT Reuter. VATICAN CITY. DOPE PIUS XII. frail, asi cetic looking head of the Catholic Church. has reached.
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    COMMUNISM IS STILL A THREAT TO PERSIA
    835 4  -  by LEOPOLD HERMAN Reuter. DESPITE the new blow dealt to their hopes by the recent confiscation by the Persian government or their property and other tssets, the illegal Tudeh (communist) Party is still a menace In Persia. It will continue to be so
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    INDIA FORMS A NEW POLITICAL PARTY
    172 4 \r-5i in A MANIFESTO, announcing &gt; o i:jOM r&gt;* «A'v political party called thr "All India Republican Party" was distributed here recently. The manifesto said tne party had been formeed because none of India's leading political parties the Congress, the Socialist M.....S C•• -1
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    ITS NOT TRUE
    28 4 U.P. TOKYO. General Mac- rthur's headquarter;denied charges by former Corpora! Ernest Zinn in Washington that immorality and venereal disease were rampant among occupation troops. —U.P.
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    Spivs Grow Fat In Germany
    224 5 Reuter. FRANKFURT, Mon. ..s nre f;lt or! ;9 t Germany's economic recovery. The public here is beginning to hear the warning "R is your money they are after." Police officia'3 say that many former black marhave turned to new after having lost jobs" owing to
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    WRIGHT (72) GETS ON WRONG SIDE OF POLICE
    114 5 A.P. I CHESTER. PENNSYLVA- NIA. Mon.—James Wright. 72. hi I• n jailed for 90 days because his heart seems to be as young as his spirit. Wright, like youngsters of i any age, iikes to scream ugh the traffic behind a Four
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    GIRLS WITH BIG FEET MAKE AN APPEAL
    67 5 A.P. DORKING, Mon—The British Government received an urgent appeal for more shoes for women with big feet. The Surrey Women's Institu:&lt;, 1,200 strong, asked the ■eminent to make more large sizes available to shops. The Government controls leather supplies and specifications for most
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    Two Rivers Meet' And Put Traffic Out Of Gear
    51 5 miring recent floods the S over U&gt;ulan(is at POfta irinMh, over Lowlands at Portsmouth, oiuo. and was joined by the Ohio River (top) The four-s»an bridge over the Scioto was closed as flood waters iniuidate main roads meet in jc there.
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    SUBMARINE ESCAPE
    67 5 ■A.P. Photo. iiie &gt;u.&gt;;nai-:iit' escape suit bniaa tried at "HUB Dolphin." the fra mng r.staLushiii ent at Portsmouth, k-tngiand. the suit is inflated wifh air r.:id will keep the :r r above water. Glows and a hood are v. orn as a protection irom cold and exposure. A
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    DRIVEL DRIVES MARJORIE NUTS
    213 5 A.P. HOLLYWOOD, Monday. VOW that the 10 best-dressed women of the year have been named. Marjorie Main wants to head a list of the 10 worst-dressed. "mat is one uonour i nave coming to me," drawled the gravel-throated actress. "I do not give a hoct for
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    MURDER THREAT BY ANONYMOUS 'PHONE CALLER
    120 5 U.P. STUTTGART, Mon. It was disclosed yesterday that American military police have 'set up a night watch around the home of an Ameofficial, whose life was threatened by an anonymous telephone caller. The official, a ranking adviser in the American High Commission branch office
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    A NEW USE FOR OUR RUBBER?
    74 5 A.P. NEW YORK. Mon. A champagne cork made of rubber is being used by Robinson-Lloyds Limited of New York, producers of a New York state domestic champagne. The rubber looks like a conventional cork used in champagne bottles. However, if you open a bottle
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    VIETMINH WILL FIGHT RED CHINA IF INVADED
    398 5  -  By RICHARD APPLEGATE U.P. BANGKOK, Monday. NYEN Due Quy, Vietminh representative in Bangkok, claims that Vietmin troops would battle any invading troops including the Chinese Reds "if they threaten to infringe on Vhtminh independence." He said he did not know if Vietminh President
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    ITS ONLY A MATTER OF MONEY'
    147 5 U.P. Vietnam SAIGON. Mon.—Peace in the northern provinces of Vietnam is "only a matter of money." Vietnam Premier Nguyen Phan Long said yesterday on his return from the northern part of the country. The premier said money is needed both for equipping Vietnam forces
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    JEALOUS MAN STABS WIFE SIXTEEN TIMES
    60 5 Reuter. MANILA. Mon—A fourday Manila bride was literally butchered to death by her husband, a young student on Saturday afternoon in a fit of jealousy, police disclosed today. The victim was 22-year-old Jazmine Albano, an attractive massage attendant, who received 16 knife wounds. The
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    GRAVE WARNING BY EINSTEIN
    47 5 A. NEW YORK, Mon.—ProI. "sor Albert Einstein said v rday that 'i the H-Homo .j developed, 'annihilation o£ lU'e Of earth i 3 within the ra jgc ol tecwweal ponabihl»—. Lt 9U2d be done," he ."aid "through radioactive poisoning oi UiC atmosphere.—" A.t\
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    COUP FAILS
    34 5 A.P liA f .viou.—-iii KhaI ud. a,rector general of tne Iraq Police, attempted to J ove; thro-/ the Government I ye.terday but was arrested I within two hours. There was no oioodshed.—A.P
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    NEGRO ASKS COURT TO RESTRAIN WIFE
    125 5 A.P. WASHINGTON, Mon.—A prominent Washington Negro, Leslie S. Perry, disclosed that for the past four months he has been mairied to Ruth W vmd, a white woman, a Government attorney. Mfcs Weyand was named three weeks ago in an alienation of affection suit brought
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    AUSTRALIA WILL PRESS FOR MORE $FROM EMPIRE
    132 6 A.P. CANBERRA, Monday. Australia is expectod soon to press Britain for more dollars from the Empire K x^ abinet su b C ommittee is examining Australia's dollar position. The committee has obtained evidence tn:it Australia was selling commodities to the United Kingdom at
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    ALONG THE GODOWNS
    60 6 r.ur (Sii.-rs); Ohhlr (IS 3); Merlinwn (11); He- mci (»0 T); Pyrrhus (33 I); j Hango'n (17 8); Pmneu (1«) j 20); t M-l.rocl (21 2) Nt r- dhva i (23/1); Bf»ĕ*Me (25 6); lieuvrnikir (278); Wf»t- &gt;. rnlla (29/80); Walverang— Benavon (16 16) Samali (13--4); Aletnous
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    Fairly Steady
    21 6 Singapore Feb. 13 The share market opened quiet and was fairly steady with small buying interesl in all sections.
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    BENTA RUBBER MAKE $49,145
    65 6 r.KNTA RUBBER ESTATES LIMITED showed a profit of 549 145 (6.3 for year ended September 30. 1949 and a dividend of 3.*.; recommended, icpcating last years distribution. Net liquid assets in balance sheet come to $132,729 or 17 1 cents per share. A'l-in cost of production
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    Share Quotations
    840 6 Singapore, Mon. INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 11.90 12.25 xb-, xd Alex. Brick» Pref. 2.40 2.60 Ord. 2.20 2.25 B.B. Petrol 34/6 35/6 B~M. Trustee® 7.60 8.00 Con. Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/3 Ord. 15/3 16/6 E. Vtfi Assur. 39 25 40.25 Est. Trust Fed. Dispensary 6.50 7.00 Fraser A
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    Tin Price
    16 6 SINGAPORE Feb. 13. Tin price was $288-87 1 2 cents per pieul ex-smelter. Unchanged.
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    RECORD U.S. RICE EXPORTS
    141 6 U.P. WASHINGTON. Mon. The Agriculture Department reported that United States rice exports in 1949 st a new record reaching 1 135.000.000 pounds compared with the previous nigh of 936.000.000 in 1947. The Department said about 60 per cent went to the Western hemisphere with slightly over
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    Fears On Siam Russia Barter
    207 6 rKIO. Mon. American officials are concerned over reports that Russia has proposed a barter agreement with Siam. The Soviets have offered unofficially lo swap Russian fertilizer machinery and i paper for an unlimited supply of Siamese rice. The Russian proposal was made i public by
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    RUBBER MARKET
    64 6 Without overseas advices, the rubber commodity market was steady but quiet yesterday with only a little business passing. Closing prices in cents per pound were Buyers Sellers No. 1 RSS f.o.b. Mai. W* 52 No. 2 RSS f.o.b. Mar. 52 52 Nc. 3 RSS f.o.b. Mar. 51% 51
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    72 6 The coffee market was very fn m with Rio No. 5 changing hands at $138 per picul. Rio No. 7 was bid for at $134 while Rio No. 3 was indicated lat $140 nominal. There wen only small offerings in th&lt; market. Copra was also a Oral market
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    INDIAN EXPORTS RISE
    198 6 A.P. NEW DELHI. Mon. Commerce Minister K. C. Neogy. 1949 was record I year for the export of tea. tobacco, black pepper, spices and cotton waste, from India. Total exports, he told the Export Advisory Council, j were valued at 280.000 000 I rupees. 19.000.000 higher I
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    Tunning Begins In Kuala Lumpur
    192 7  -  By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2000 Winners Kt ALA LUMPL T R, Today: Most of the outstation horses entered for t he Selangor Turf Club Goid Cup meeting have not yet arrived and the few who have were confined to pace work this morninj?
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    LIVINGSTONE UNBEATEN WITH 121 RUNS
    114 7 Reuter. H x DLi iABAD, ivion.—The •Commonwealth cricket touring team today beat South Zone by seven wickets one hour after lunch on the fourth Jay of their match here. The Commonwealth today wade 2ti for three in their second innings, following V u jr first
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    OLYMPICS FOR JEWISH SPORTSMEN
    93 7 Reuter. IKL AVIV. Mon.—Jewish sportsmen the world over nav&lt; n invited to partiite in the third MaccaWan games which are due bi gin m Israel on September 27. fhe games, sponsored by" 1 Maccabi World Union, are run on the lines of the Olympic Games and
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    TBA WIN AGAIN
    30 7 Hie Tamil Brotnerhoou Asfeated the Chinese for the second time ason on Sunday, when I ndiy match at the Beaai they scored a victory before a large
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    DRAWN MATCH
    30 7 f ath .1 K&rib Sports Club all with the Indonesian V in a sorcer match at Farrer X &gt;esterday. Kjuann n evertF.K.S.C. Abu lUwn d for the Indonesians.
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    THREAT TO WORLD TWO MILE RECORD
    90 7 A.P. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, Mon.—Don McEwen. the young Canadian distance runner, turned in a record breaking performance on Saturday to lead Michigan to victory over Wisconsin in a dual track meet. McEwen. an 18-year-old sophomore, ran two miles in nine minutes six and ninth
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    S.A. FIGHT NOT TO FOLLOW-ON
    350 7 Reuter. JOHANNESBURG, Monday. JjOUTH Africa, with three wickets in hand, need 41 runs to save the follow on against Australia in the fourth cricket Test here. Enterprising batting by George Fullerton, Tayfield and Norman Mann enabled them to recover from 148 for six wickets to
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    Evie Pinching
    94 7 To Make* A l oiii&lt;p-Itat*k j A.P. ASPEN, OI.OR.aJO, Mon.—Ewe Pinching, of Grcai Britain, compel si If lh.' w \mic's gfiant Wv a s':'. Mr o*a V:onday, r*thattgh it h than two y.wrs since she suffered a trckea tark in an eutomt'ii! A ehmnn/en id her own '•ouniry
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    CANTON S.C.
    74 7 At an inaugural mceing of Hie Union of Janton Spurt* Club held at the residence of MY. Khoo Eng Watt. 186, Joo Chiat Ttriace the following were elected office hearers for :h« A)Aqir&gt;g year:— Preridtnt, Mr. Khoo l&ng Watt: lion. secretary. Mr. Kang mow Khim: hon. treasurer, Mr.
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    BLUE ROVERS
    72 7 The team to represent the Blue Rovers in a friendly game of soccer with G.H.Q. 2nd. Echelon on Thursday, at Farrer Park ground wili be selected from: Wong Meng, Wee C.van Wee. A. H. Ibrahim. Lee Mo Cheong. Lav Kum Poh, E's Lahi Muda. Lee Fook Chuei.. Mohd
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    H.K. WIN INTER-DISTRICT RUGBY AGAINST MALAYA
    330 7  -  By LUKE ANG A LAST minute decisive gQal gave honours to the Hongkong Service XV over Malaya District by 14 points (one goal, three penalty goals) to nine (one penalty goal, two tries) in the Fraser Neave Inter-District Rugby Competition at Tanglin yesterday. Hero
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    2 KNOCK-OUTS AT AMATEUR BOXING
    466 7 fHE vast strides made by amateur boxing in the past two years were clearly seen at the Happy World last night when the semi-finals in the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association championships were held. The contestants went for it m a big way and there were
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    SOVIET WOMĔN ARE CHAMPIONS
    65 7 A.P. MOSCOW. Mon. Soviet women speed skaters took the nrst eight places on Sunday in the women's international speed skating championships in Moscow. Mariya Isakovr, a Moscow girl, who previously won two consecutive titles as women's speed skating champion &lt;vf the world, won again. Norwegian star
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    England's Amateur Soccer XI
    54 7 A.P. LONDON, Mon:—The England Amateur soccer team to roest Scotland at Hull on March 4 was announced today as follows: ft. H. Jarvis; C.A. Neal, L. C. Rowlands; P. Aston, C. Fuller (Capt.), D. Jk. Mills; H. J. Potts, A. W. Noble, W. Holmes, W. -J.
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    LUCKY STRIKE BP
    29 7 Parties, clubs and associations aesirqus to arrange matches with Lucky Strike B.P. should communicate with Use hon. sports captain, Mr. Charlie Chua. No. 49 Shanghai Road.
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    Weights For K.L. Race Meet
    631 7 THE Selangor Turf Club Gold Cup meeting begins in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday when the follow- ing races will be run: HORSES. CLASS 1, DIV. 1, 7 FUBLONGS. I'EBOSTAN 9.0:? SILVEB SPE Alt S.r! KINDER GOLD 8.09 LONGCHAMPS II 8.08 BIG SIBPBISE 8.06 KING AKTHFB
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    Draw For 6th Round of F.A. Cup
    282 7 Reuter. LONDON. Mon. THE draw lor the sixth round of the FA. Cuo to be played on March 4. resulted as follows: Chesterfield or Chelsea v. Manchester Utd. or Portsmouth: Derby County v. Everton: Liverpool v. Wolverhampton W. or Blackpool: Arsenal v. Leeds
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      757 7 ENGAGEMENT The engagement is announced and tne marriage will take place shortly between h&lt; tty 1 kniri Giles (die* Butter XUcUien) -mm Edmund Gra&gt; (Tcddloi L Whcatley of Singapore f LOST SILVERWARE f AND PLATE. Silverware and Plate in the Custody of the Custodian of Property, bearing marks of identity,
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      81 7 TUIC fMpoNT BLAME Fmc GREEDY MUSI Bt ON |H" X TO TH' AIRPORT, jj fIW DIRTY. LOW WHAT THIS As] THAT TRAIN GOIN6 50UTH? "rf&f* DRIVER... AS FAST %R DOWN CROOK: 4 WILL TAiL MY f BUT I I IT'S THE ONLY WAV HE YOU KNOW HOW riWTid mr r
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    REDS GET READY FOR HAINAN LANDING
    340 8 'WILL OCCUPY ISLAND WITHIN A MONTH' Reuter U.P. HONGKONG, Monday. THE Communist High Command has mustered 1 150,000 men. 30 motor propelled vessels, thousands of landing craft and two "strong naval groups" for the invasion of Hainan island, according to Chinese reports from Canton.
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    INVITATION ACCEPTED
    27 8 U.P. ivAKaLm, Mon.—xnioimled sources said here today that Liaquat Ali Khan has accented an invitation from I President Truman to visit tne United States.—U P
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    Japs Are Aiding Chiang
    190 8 U.P., Reuter. CHIAYI. Formosa, Mon.Admiral Charles M. Cooke .li. former Commander of tho United States naval forces in the western Pacific, told Chinese Nationalist airmen today that their offensive against the Chinese Communists "will be lecorded in history for hundreds of yoaito come.' The retired Admiral
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    HOW S'PORE CAN SUPPORT THE MONTH'
    85 8 SINGAPORE will be told J over the radio today how she can support and assist in the AntiBandit Month campaign. It will be the first of a series of broadcasts on the Anti-Bandit Month to be heard over Radio Malaya in "Talk of the
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    FRANCE WARNS NATIONALISTS
    206 8 Reuter. PARIS, Monday. TRANCE has warned the Chinese Nationalists that r they will be held responsible for any loss cf French lives acd property resulting from Nationalist air attacks on Communist China, the French Foreign Office announced today. "The Chinese Nationalist Air Force has just systematically bombed
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    LONDON SHARES
    195 8 Reuter. RICHARD DE SILVA 14 2-1950 LONDON. Mon.- The London Stock Exchange began the week on a quite note with trading restricted by the approach of end account last day tomorrow Tuesday. Price changes today were mainly small and showed some irregularity. British Government funds lost an early
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    DEATH
    40 8 Mr. Francis Hong Peck Lock of 232-B, Kampong Chantek. I passed away yesterday. The cortege will leAve house at 4.30 p.m. today for St. Peter's and Paul Church at Queen Street. The burial service will be held at Bidadari.
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    Soviets Stop Traffic In 'Memory Of U.S. Bombers'
    170 8 Reuter. BERLIN, Monday. A LL traffic was stopped in the Soviet done city of Dresden for one minute at noon today "in memory of the cruel and senseless destruction of the city by American bombers five years ago." 10l demonstration was regarded
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    PLANTER SHOT
    62 8 IPOH, Today.—Mr. H. N. Winter, 60-year-old. manager of Dusun Bertam Estate was killed in a bandit attack last night at 8.30 while on his way home from a visit to town. The late Mr. Winter is brother of Mr. H. B. Winter of Singapore. He leaves behind him
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    'Madame' At Work
    61 8 Chiang Aai-shek has thrown herseli into her totond's war work since her return from the United spates concentrating mainly on the care of wounded filters Sh» launch* a drive for funds to buy artificial limbs for maimed Soldiers. She is seen above at a meetaanos wnn a
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    Mr. Jessup finds war in Orient Hot
    257 8 U.P. BANGKOK, Monday. SEVENTEEN top American diplomats in the Far East met in a secret conference in the American Embassy here today to decide how to keep Communism from over-running South-East Asia. In charge of the conference was American Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup, top
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    SIBU TRIAL EXPECTED TO END THURSDAY
    178 8 SIBU, Monday. THE trial of the ten Malays, charged with abetting the murder of the Governor of Sarawak, Mr. Duncan Stewart, is expected to end on Thursday. in today s session nve wi the accused gave evidence in their own defence. The prosecution alleged
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    EVACUATE BY AIR
    47 8 w a. iklou. -incupii j 40* companies in Caieubti .'V.t tocay sendjtQg a ileet oi ten panacuger aircraft to. L)ac:a, itiasc Beagai capital (Pakistan) to evacuate. letugees from that city. I :ommunai disturbance have been reported in Dacca in toe last fom days. —tteufej.
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    The Egg . . . and Ernest
    115 8 The Egg and Ernest Reuter. EPSOM. Mon. Mr. Ernest Skilton. 67-year-old retired engineer, decided 18 months ago to become a backyard poultry-keeper. His chickens have gone on a laying spree. Result: A double-shell egg with one yolk between the two shells and another yolk in the middle of the egg.
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    TAKING NO CHANCES
    119 8 A.P. LONDON. Mon.- "The 00--ject oi Russian policy is to get control of Europe." British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told a political rally last night. He defended Britlsn armament expenditure and the presence of American bombers in Britain, saying. "It is our duty to see to the
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    Paris To South Seas Air Service To Start Soon
    129 8 FRENCHMEN, who want to visit the South Seas, or who have to go there on business, will soon be able to fly by the Constellation direct from Paris to the airfield at Bora-Bora. 200 miles from Tahiti. From there passengers will
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    Zero Hour Passes-But U.S.I. Keeps Up Guard
    119 8 JAKARTA, Monday. 2ERO hour for a threatened rebellion against the infant United States of Indonesia passed peacefully today, but the nervous ration kept up its guard. r The former Dutch array commando. "Turkc" Westerling, has issued an ultimatum to the young government demanding
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    MAO IS NOT INTERESTED IN H.K.'AT PRESENT
    503 8  -  TAN KAH KEE U.P and A .P. HONGKONG. Monday TAN KAH KEE, former Singapore rubber kmg and an official of *the ChineSfe Communist Government, said today that the Chinese Communists will not ask the return of Hongkong "at the present time." He refused
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    The Ghost Speaks Russian?
    107 8 A.P. BRISTOL, Mon —"Mrs It the ghost of No. 13. Highworth Road, is bacK again with a playmate. Only three weeks ago. the haunt was exercis Church of England Vicar in a religious rite, taken from early Christian records. The peace of No. 13 short-lived. Last
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL
    57 8 Y.af.C.A:: Comni i lal C es and Malay and F es at 5.30 p.m., Publn 1« &lt; i t&lt; by Mr. G. Thompson "The Conservative Thread at 8 p.ni. Y.W.C.A.: Mandarin at 10 a.m. Raffles Quay. SINGAPORE STAMI' TUB: Social Meetlngr. Cathay RtMaurant. 5 p.m. YOl'NG
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    CINEMA
    161 8 CATHAY; -Hills of Heme with Edmund Gewnn. DonaU Criep, Tom Drake I-t;- 0 and Lassie at 11, 1.4j. 4 IS. &lt;&gt;■•** and 9 30 p.m. CAPITOL: "Thon-: n Ngai L&lt;uen I„oke Ya •&lt; 'Mandarin) at 11, 1.45, 4. 6.."" n(J 9.30 p.m. ALHAMBKA: Wre Kitu Crew" with Richard AH''"Chester
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    SPORT
    37 8 SOCCER: Sin«a|x&gt;r&lt; r, t :S r vs. Royal Navy at J a! stadium. ,2n&lt;i RIGBY Seven-a roMnd: S. Johor»* v SH.B. v. R.M. Police d A RAF Tengah Unicorn on nadamr. ,poBOXING: Novices \flna- lice Depot.
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