Malaya Tribune, 22 February 1950

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    62 1 MALAYA Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tek Tribune* S'ptM 7/M7V AAT AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 3811/3 Nbe Urn Published simultaneously at 8 Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1950 TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE I LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice (flover, '"alaya
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    Chou In Moscow
    37 1 ftn& picture of the arrival in Moscow of Chou En-lai, Communist China's Foreign !HiniS»er, w UUC part i»» me negotiations which led to ihe signing of the 30-years a liance between Kussia and China.
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    Rice, Curry For Malayan Visitors To B.I.F.
    196 1 The organisers of the fair will make special arrangements this year to save Malayan visitors from travel, language, accommodation and food difficulties. In the past some have kept n \av b cause of tin irouoie involved. Mr. K. E. Mackenzie. United Kingdom Trade
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    NO PROBLEM
    19 1 A.P. CANfcJriKKA, Tueri.—Only 947 people were registered as unemployed in Australia at the end of December. —A.P.
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    FAROUK TALES CREATE STORM IN EGYPT
    101 1 U.P. CAIRO T':es—The Egyptian newspaper Al Misri. o. uid Waiaist government party, said today that Egypt will break otf diplomatic relations with Swltxeriand if "Zionistinspired lies*' continue to appear In Swiss newspapers. F reign Minister Mohammed Saleh el Din Bey, asked for comment on
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    THE MARQUIS AND THE OYSTERMAN
    41 1 A.P. LONDON Tues. The w -'ford w av°n was in collision with an Ofscerman crossing Piccadilly last nlfht. a pus and his American fc'Tn wife escaped injury. rman, Ben Gold liable Manetta's Restaurant was to hospital.—AJP.
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    TIN: MARKET EASIER
    73 1 LONDON, Taes. -The tin market turned easier today but there was a big iniprovenit nt In the turnover. Spot closed a bit better at lit tntee months fell Ws. 8d to £583-N. doting pi ice.s at the sea ion were Spot »99 buyers and £600 wHti business
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    Today's Best Bets
    23 1 The best bets for today's races in Kuala Lumpur, where the going will be good, are: Gloiify, Token and Trousers.
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    Elizabeth to have another baby rumour
    68 1 A.P. LONDON. Tues —A Buckingham Palace press spokesman who was asked today about a rumour that Princess Elizabeth is expecting a baby in August told reporters: "I have absolutely no information either to support or to negative such reports. I just do not know
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    INDO-IRANIAN PACT
    22 1 U.P. i\nivV lues. A treaty of lriendship and commerce between India and Iran will be signed in Teheran soon. —UP-
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    ONE FOR 'WINNIE'
    27 1 U.P. LOiN'iJOiS, Tues, AM*»' 8 olutsc voter on Inursday wil! be Miss Kllen Payne, 107 of CondJit Eload ADingrior.. Sac wid vote C-j-.je*vauve.- L.P.
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    Strikers Set Fire To Coal Mine
    102 1 A.P. PITTSBURGH, Tuesday. A raging fire broke out toda yin a non-union Pennsylvania coal mine. State police have blamed it on picket gangs remaini j ing in the area. It is the latest episode of violence as miners refused to obey a court order
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    U.S.BREAKS RELATIONS WITH BULGARIA
    322 1 HUNGARY ALSO IN BAD BOOKS U.P. WASHINGTON, Tuesday. rpHE State Department announced today that it has broken diplomatic relations press spokesman Michael McDermott said that the United has informed the Bilgarian Foreign Office of the break in a note deliver- Ed to Sofia yesterday. JtAitfi r
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    ACHESON'S WARNING ON RED DESIGNS
    197 1 U.P. WASHINGTON. Tucx. Secretary of State Deim Acheson warned today that Russia is acting with "increasing boldness" international affairs and urged Congress to do whatever necessary to frustrate "tne Kremlin's desire for woi'd domination." Acneson's statement wa? made before a joint session of the Senate
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    IT'S FORCE OF HABIT WITH JUMPING TERRY
    95 1 A.P LONDON. Tues—Terence Willans goes home each week-end by plane and parachute. Willans a 33 year old ex-paratrooper who jumped into France and Greece during the war. works at the Denham Film Studio outside London. His home is 45 miles away in Little
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    BANDITS CUT 'PHONE WIRES
    48 1 JOHORE BAHRU, Today.— Bandits last night cut telephone wires on the Johore Bahru /Ayer Hitam Road and scattered communist paper flags and pamphlets. They also made a raid on E'.acis Estate in the Kluang area but were repulsed and driven away by special constables.
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    GHOST SHIP MYSTERY OUT
    70 1 U.P. MALTA. Tues. The mystery of the ghost ship Imperia found drifting in the Mediterranean with nobody aboard was cleared up today when a Greek sea captain told how the yacht parted her two-ropes while he was taking her to Greece. Captain Vasslllos Zacharis explained that
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    200 DIE IN BENGAL RIOTS
    180 1 U.P. NEW DELHI, Tues.--Offi-cial sources said today that hundreds of persons had been killed in HinduMuslim rioting in Bengal which borders on Pakistan. New Delhi sources said that at least 200 victims of the Communal rioting were cremated In the East Pakistan city of Dacca
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    Surprise Awaits Ampat Tin Secretary
    102 1 By Lawrence G. Mani Despite denials from London, I have reason to reiterate, that a resolution from Malayan shareholders of Ampat Tin Dredging Ltd., will be brought up at Its next general meeting asking the company to wind up in London and start aireso in
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    TOKIO BOUND
    17 1 Reuter. SajatON. #ues. —Air. k. rhettur. Indian Minister to japan, leit here today for ...ye.—tteuter.
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    11 Killed, 50 Hurt In Funeral Riot
    148 1 Reuter-A.P. ASMARA, Tuesday. BRITISH and American troops came to the aid of 5 polite here to stop n pitched «treet Mine today in which eleven people were killed and 50 wounded. Mr< of the epsualties were Chnstmn Krureans. The fight followed a grenade
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    OPERATION SAVES THREE-DAY-OLD BABE
    92 1 A.P. TAIPEH, Tuesday. MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Doctors at Queen Victoria Hospital saved the life of a three-day-old baby by cutting an opening between its stomach and intestine. The baby Darrell Young was prematurely born. He weigned only 41b. 3oz. He could not retain food. Doctors fed him
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    INDIA'S DENIAL
    36 1 Reuter. TonYO, Tues. —An Indian mission spokesman today denied an American news agency report quoting a mission spokesman as stating that the Indian Government had decided to accept Japanese overseas agencies in India. —Reuter.
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    16 CARDS STOLEN
    24 1 SfcJGAMAT, Today.—Bandits held up 16 Chinese in Kampong Bahar Arang in the Gemuang area and took away their identity card yesterday.
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    Election Will Decide Pacific Pact Issue
    236 1 U.P. LONDON, Tuesday. THURSDAY'S general election will largely deter--1 mine Britain's viewpoint on the Pacific Pact advocated by Australia's Foreign Minister Percy Spender on.which the major contesting parties have "different ideas." official sources said today- They recalled that the British Labour government gave a
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    ODDS STILL ON LABOUR VICTORY
    104 1 LONDON. Tues. The betting Odds en the British general election held steady today with the Labour Party the 4 to 6 favourites and 6f05 offered against Winston Churchill's Conservatives. The Air Ministry today forecast dull and rather cold weather with rain in many harts of
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    Half Tax For Five Shows Proposed
    95 1 STOP PRESS Cuts in enter lair, men t tax are recommended in the report of the Film and Entertainment Rti'v P< »i' > Committee tabled before the Legislative Council this morning. Cuts suggested are: flalftax for live shows and sports; reductions of ft\e to
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    BOY BANDIT TO STAND AGE TEST
    134 2 JOHOKE, BAHRU, Tuesday. THE appeal of 17-year-cld Tan Cheng Chuan against a five-year prison sentence was withheld by the High Court today. Justice Laville ordered Cheng Chuan to be examined by a Government Medical Officer to find out his correct age. It was di.
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    DRIVER GETS HIS FINE BACK
    85 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Mr. Justice L.V.J. Laville today a.lowed the appeal of Chia Ah Kong, aged 29. and quashed his conviction and sentence of $100' fine in default six weeks prison. He ordered the fine, which had been paid, to be refunded. Ah Kong was.
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    YESTERDAY'S CEREMONY AT EMPRESS PLACE
    56 2 A view of the guests at the opening of the Third Session i the Singapore Legislative Council at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday. Right: Sir Patrick Mr Kerr r. delivers his thirty sevenmi nuto address. Left: sir Patrick and th.- Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. MLM.
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    STOREKEEPER & $7,000 MISSING
    234 2 STOREKEEPER $7,000 MISSING rHUNG HOCK CHYE, a storekeeper employed by Commissionaria De Esportazione E Di Importazione, a Singapore firm, was missing on March 18 last. A check of the store cash book and the stock book revealed a shortage of two bales of textiles, two cases of cigarette paper and
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    Driver cleared on appeal
    133 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.-r-Mr. Justice L.V.J. LavUle allowed the appeal of 28-year-old Poh Ah Chow against a tite-month prison sentence in the High Court today. Ah Chow, a lorry driver oi Kluang. had been convicted for driving in a rash manner so as to cause the death
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    $ 2,500-GIFT FOR VARSITY
    45 2 2,500-GIFT FOR VARSITY The University of Malaya Endowment Fund is up another 1 $12,838. 33. The total now is £2,417," 10..3 J. Biggest ido nation of the week is .52.r,70.00 the proceeds fror.i the Exhibition Match held by the Island Co'.t Club in Ddcdmbet l'J49.
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    SUNDAY SERMON
    35 2 Mi. Lan Morrison. Secretary of the National Bible Society, will preach at the first evening service of Hebon Chapel, Tay Lian'Teck Road on Sunday. Rev. Leonard Cprnwen will preach at thr morning service
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    The Shies Ire Grey But — SIR PATRICKS PLUME RIDES THE STORM
    359 2 The Shies Ire Grey But SIR PATRICKS PLUME RIDES THE STORM DLACK clouds and a lowering sky hung over Empress Place yesterday morning when Sir Patrick McKerron, flanked by five motor-cycle outriders, drove up to open the third and last full session of the Lesrislative Council. Sir Patrick, resplendent in
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    LEE KONG CHIAN
    26 2 Mr. Lee Kong Chian. the Chinese rubber magnate, i it for Kuala Lumpur yesterday to attend a conference He is expected back today.
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    Move For 3 More Elected Seats
    137 2 PROGRESSIVE Party leader Mr. C. C. Tan wants the number of elected Legislative Councillors brought up to nine. This will bring the total of elected mcmbeis to twelve. To-day he «Hl put forward a motion to this effect for th? Council to debate at
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    YOUTH SEEKS NEW FIELDS OF THOUGHT
    100 2 The third issue of Youth,' a magazine published by a board of seventeen students from the secondary schools in Singapore, is out. It deals with questions ranging from the housing problem in Singapore to a day with the Dyaks in Borneo. Quite a few
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    3 P.C.s took $15,900 in bribes
    123 2 Court Told A POLICE corporal, Ibrahia bin Molor, and two constables, Othman bin Jimat. and Simm bin Uaba were charged in the Fourth Police Court yesterday with accepting bribes totalling $15,900 as inducement not to take any action against the landing cf 100 tins
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    FIRST MAN TO GO
    36 2 ~»Ir. M.S. >I*mioii, tin* first Singapore Government orfkvr to g*> for training to Australia. He:nl uraugtit*rnan of .he Survey liepari'iient, he will #P a year' cour at tin> Melbourne Ti Jiaiea' College.
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    I KILLED BY MISTAKE
    187 2 Murder Case Man A CHINESE trisha rider on trial for the murd.r of an opium den owner, Chong Hai Chua. in Sungei Road on the night of November 15 last, tola Mr. Justice Gordon-Smith yesterday that he Chong with an axe by mistake. The rider Lee
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    SUSPECTED REDS
    18 2 Two Chinese suspects oi the Malayan Communist Party were arrested yes er day by the C.I.D.
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    London has 2nd air link with Australia
    193 3 IN the event of another war realdng out in the South Pacific the air link I K-t\veen r; .da r<nd Britain will not be severed. Another link has ir atly found, said Sir Miles Thomas, Chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, yesterday
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    Warning To Aliens In Singapore
    111 3 THE Special Branch of the Sinj ipore Police said yesterday that aliens in Singa- hive failed to report to thi Aliens Registration Office. C.I.D Building. Cecil Street. Singapci c. It is not sufficient for a'icns to register at the National Re g strati on Office.
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    $5,000 MALAY BANDIT GIVES IN
    548 3 Says: Chinese made puppet leader of me KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. NOTORIOUS Malay bandit leader in Pahang. Wahi Annuar, who had a reward of $5.000 on his head, recently surrendered to the Police through the Penghulu Pedahat at Kampong Pava Chawangan in the Jerantut area. He
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    U.S. WRITER TO TOUR MALAYA
    117 3 Mr. John Strohm. associate editor of the Curtis Publishing Company chain which is one of America's largest publishers of magWZine& arrived in Singapore yesterday from Colombo for a fortnight's visit. Mr. Strohm expects to leave for Kuala LumDur tonight on a sev. n to ten
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    STUDY GIFT FOR K.L. PRINTER
    67 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Mr. Thor Peng Chong of the Government Printing Department will leave Malaya •or the United Kingdom in August to study at the London School of Printing. He has been awarded a Government scholarship on the recommendation of the Departmental Selection Board to
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    SHACKS TO GOMORE HOMELESS
    311 3 THE Singapore Naval Base authorities are today facing not only an acute housing shortage but also the problem of providing better living quarters for their industrial employees. Several blocks of wooden-barracks have been pulled down because they were condemned as unsafe." Hundreds of families of the
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    Honours for twenty-one
    79 3 Some of the recipients of honours presented by Sir Henry Gurney, the Federation High Commissioner, at a ceremony at King's House, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. Left to right: (apt. R.H. Coxhead, MBE (Mil.); Capt. C mrtes GUI. MBE, (Mil); P. O.A.D. Harvey MBE, (Mil); BlSUdai .lalhahadur Limbu, MliE,
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    SGT. OSMAN FOUGHT 4- HOUR EPIC-GETS M.M.
    2476 3 SGT. OSMAN FOUGHT 4HOUR EPIC-GETS M.M. KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A MALAY sergeant, who, ambushed in deep jungb, took over command of his men and kept off a swarm of bandits iill a patrolling plane came to his aid has been awarded the Military Medal. He was one of the twenty-one
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    PLASMA SAVED MOTHER OF untitled
    222 3 A MOTHER of nineteen children in the Kandafl Kerbau Maternity Hospital was recently sav*l by a blood transfusion. Dr. Elaine Chong said yesterday tfcat wha the woman was admitted to the hospital for til delivery of her nineteenth child, her general tion was very poor.
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    'SARA' FOR BATU PAHAT
    52 3 Mi M. Saravanamutjj Commissioner foi Ceylon Malaya, will visit Batu Pa/ on March 2. He will addr.. a public meeting of Ceylon., at the Chinese Chamber J Commerce. bate* Mi. M. Sara var{ muthu wi" be entertained dinner by the Central Coun of Cc done.-c Assccjatioas
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    DESTROYER CREW BLESS SEA PLANE
    85 3 r E U.S. Navy seaplane, the Martin Mariner, touched down at Seletai yesterday for a two day stop and was Matted by the crew of thc«U.S.S. destroyer, Agcrholm. She brought them their mail. Lt. Commander Gordon Cornell, the Naval Attache here said the Martin Marinei
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    TWO POLIO CASES IN FED.
    46 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tucs.Two cases of Polio were repoited in the Federation during the week ending Feb. 11. Seven cases of scrub typhus, two of urban typhus and one of cerebro-spinal fever were also reported. None of the eases resulted in death.
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    FLOOD RECEDES
    21 3 KUANTAN. Tues—The Pasii Kemudi flood waters are now three feet above the bridge. Kuantan ahtfeld mow in use again.
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    U.K. ELECTIONS
    22 3 Tne latest results of u»e British elections will be broadcast by Radio Malaya at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 24.
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    TRADE TALK
    20 3 M. Yves Bernard will discuss trade relations between Malaya and Fiance, over Radio Malaya at 7.10 p.m. today.
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    'YOUR DAY OUT' WAS FUN
    310 4 and it netted $iioo YOUR Day Out" at the Happy World Parte recently netted 54.100 for the St. Hilda's School Building Fund. It was a valuable contribution towards the 522.000 that has to be raised for the four classrooms part of the school extension programme
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    Dancing Princess
    57 5 2 v L ir nt 01 Princess BHryHa cd Bwoaeaiuipup.iatthe %c"-known >tockhohn na !et sehoo' of Mrs. Nina Koz'ovshv. Mrs. Kozlovskv tanmus in re- fs v. rv ph a> d ulth her l!oya! pupil aund^^^^Sf^Ji mad process. The lithe Princess is the first member o! ihe Swcdfeh Royal
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    NON-STOP FLIGHT
    25 5 An R.A.F. Dakota, carrying Admiral Sit Patrick Brind. flew non-stop from Hongkong to Tengah on Sunday in eight and a ha t" hours.
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    JUDGE SIDES WITH RICE FARMERS
    160 5 A.P. MANILA. Tuex=. Lice fe-m tenant.' who voluntarily Sign contracts gt*&ng landlerds «30 per cent of their aie net obligated to fulfil their agreement under phlMpP'n™ law. the lla court 3f industrial Relations held in a tiecrsion handed down yesterday. Nor may tenants who refuse.
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    BEVIN REPLIES TO CHURCHILL
    355 5 Denies Dictation On Major Policy Issues U.P. LONDON, Tuesday. pOREIGN Secretary Ernest Bevin said tonight that British foreign policy under the Labour Government is to work closely in consultation with the l 'nited States on relations with Russia including any new attempt to stop the atomic
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    ISRAEL, JORDAN AGREE ON JERUSALEM
    109 5 U .P. GENEVA. Tues A .pok man for th:' governments Of both Israe l and Jordan told, the Dnlted Natktt i .ship Council on Monday thai they tiould reject the Council's itoposeri datute to internationalise the whole tff Jerusalem. Aubrey Eban. chiet 1., raeli delegate
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    BRAVE COLLIE SAVES HIS MASTER'S LIFE
    117 5 LONDON. Tues.-Rally. a black and white collie, siiw his master. Andrew Jamei son. being savaged by a: »"»iil O't ts. r ta "bcote i Farm. Radcliffe-on-Tr-at. As the bull lifted Andrew on Its horns. Rally sprang He seized the chain on *he bull's nose
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    21 Malay Women Join As Auxiliary
    150 5 KUALA. LUMPUR, Tues.— In orte small mujum in Pahang. twenty-one Malay women have- enrolled as Auxiliary Policewomen for the AntiBandit Month. This is the first time tnat women have volunteered la strength. Students and masters of Lie Clifford School. Kuala Llpis. ere also helping
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    52.000-GIFT FOR CENTRE
    49 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Selangor State Welfare Committee voted $2,000 for the establishment of a Training Centre at Setapak at Its meeting today. The centre will provide facilities for training in sewing, dhobying, cooking, carpentry and indoor and outdoor sports for both sexes of all communities
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    Karen Rebel Leader
    111 5 1 1 les Ba i bf-xrd and nto.it... he has groom. br<>u back to Rangoon b> young Burmese repoi Maung Than I to covet fighting nei«! Pegu four montl a Young Maung v.a» cap! by the Karens soon aJ hii arrival In Pegu. Hi snatched from the
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    S.A.'S THREE RACES
    23 5 Reuter. SAPETOWN, Tues. Ali South Africans, except "natives" under 18. will be registered and classified an '•native", "coloured 'or "Kuropean".—Renter.
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    STRIKE HITS CLASS
    31 5 ST. LOUiS, Tues. Al! public school;: in St. Louis wil' close at the end of j clnsser: tomorrow until re'it eapath as s remit *)f Inc. coai shortage
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    Atom -Prospectors Must Be Tough
    243 5 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Tuesday. J ENDERFOOT uranium prospectors invading Mich-1 gan's Upper Peninsula are likely to discover th«* j a smattering of "frontier-day" knowledge is almoS as indispensable as their modern Geiger counters. 1 The going definitely favours tne rough-and ready type in the area of
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    PRASAD'S PAY CU
    48 5 Reuter. NriW UHJL.HI. Tues. j President Rnjcndra Ptm has accepted a voluntary I of Qrtcon per cent i>tJ «:u!ary in Vuw of th.- ..a cial "stringency in Indi.. salary is R5.16.00u i £7S(. > in..nth. Juwaharia! •nd other MifusUi. <. agreed to similar cuts in a pay.—Rmter.
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    THE McKERRON PLAN
    535 6 SIR Patrick McKerron has mapped out a ten-year plan for Singapore. By the end ot that time, if all goes well, we shall have built up a society "well-educated, well-housed and well-cared for and imbued with the ideals of service and of leadership absorbed in good schools
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    JAP PEACE TREATY HOPE IS FADING
    1156 6  -  By Roy Macartney TOKYO. HOPE of a Japanese peace treaty in the near future, so high only two months ago. is fading. Hyper-sensitive to an winds from Washington, the Japanes2 today fear that opinion in the American capital is hardening against holding a peace
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    THE QUOTABLE NOTABLE
    679 6  -  AMERICAN NEWSLETTER by JOHN KERIGAN NEW YORK. THE annual observance of Abraham Lincoln's birthday on February 12 was highlighted this year by the publication of "The Lincoln Encyclopaedia." It is a collection of the writings and sayings of the beloved Civil War President, who has been called
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    DEMOCRACY HAS ALLIES IN RUSSIA
    1071 6 NEW VORi IN Russia today there are I legions of tiling, indigent people who chafe under the omnipotent police ctate and long with their being for freedom reports a trained Aramcaß observer who recently left the Soviet Union. "In coming years, the strongest most determined
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    MYSTERY ICE WORMS
    297 6 THERE were billions of mysterious worms up in them thar snow-covered mountains, according to wandering trappers from the little Alaskan township of Juneau although nobody quite believed the story. Just how it was left to a mountaineering scientist to confirm this story was recounted in Nature recently.
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    AN 'OSCAR' WILL BE AWARDED for the WORLD'S BEST WINE
    336 7 Reuter. i im>X7 x PARIS, Tuesday. A JL KY of eternal wine connoisseurs will meet at Bordeaux in June to choose the best wine in the world. The producer of th" winning wine will receive an "Oscar." The Drize will
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    U.S. AID FOR EUROPE
    22 7 Tho Defense Department reported today that arm.s aid shipments to Western Europe probably will start early next month.
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    Jolly Roger To Welcome Foreigners
    217 7 THE Jolly Roger, flying bethe blue flag of the Unit Nations, will welc foreign visitors next year to one of the stran- n m iritime museums in the world. who see the rare collection of sea relic housed In a small water-front house at Gravesend.
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    Lady Astor Is Busiest Election Mother
    154 7 A.P. LONDON, Tues.—Busiest r in Britain this elee- >aign is Americanborn Lady Astor. rgetlc and gay at helping three sons Rght for Conservative in the Feb. 23 parliamentary elections. \stor the former Langhorne oi GreenVirginia, USA. knows campaign tricks, all 8h *as the first
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    Siam Police seize three tons opium
    136 7 BANGKOK, Tues.—Threttons of raw opium were seiz ed by police last night in north Siam, it was officially announced tcdav. Police belief that the opium was about to be smuggled to Bangkok by train and has resulted in the reshuffle of key railway employees
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    U.S. OFFER TO RUSSIA ATTACKED
    128 7 U.P. WASHINGTON, TUti*. Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jnr., said yesterday that any immediate United States offer to negotiate atomic controls and el'sarmament with the Soviet Union in a "Big Two" conrerooee might "actually bring us iu-o-tor to war." He told the Senate that lb*Soviet
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    TWO KILLED IN AIR CRASH
    50 7 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO. Tues —Two United States officers were killed yesterday when a twin-Must-ang "all weather aircraft crashed while landine at Johnson air base, 25 miles west of Tokyo. The twin-Mustang la made up of two Mustang fuselages side by side, joined by a common wing,—Rruter-AAP.
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    Father of the United States
    126 7 The anniversary of George Washington's iKi-m will be observed as a national holiday in the United States today. Washington, military leader and the first President the United States was born 218 years ago today. He was Commander-in-chiei of the army raised for winning American independence.
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    'KISS OF DEATH' GIRL'S REVENGE ON JAPANESE
    273 7 A.P. Photo. RANGOON. Tups MOUNT Popa, an extinct volcano in Central Burma, immediately north of the oilfields, i.s the homo of the Hamadryad—the King Cohra—worshipped by a nearby Burmese tribe as a deity. En the jungle clogging the mountain's base, the?*' Burmese have
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    U.S. CARRIER ARRIVES FOR MANOEUVRES
    56 7 A.P. MANILA. Tues.—The U.S. Navy aircrait carrier, U.S.S. Boxer, accompanied by the destroyers Emerson and John W. Thomason, arrived in Bubic Bay today. With other units of the Seventh fleet, the Boxer will participate in joint manoeuvres with the British Far East Fleet scheduled for
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    Hirohito Takes In 1.000
    82 7 LOS ANGELES. Tups. AN HOTEL with 1,000 rooms is to be built in the outer grounds of the Imperial Palace in Tokio. Mr. YVelton Beckett, architect, announced yesterday. This is part of a £36 million building programme for Japan to stimulate tourist trade. U. S. and
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    4 H.K. PASSENGERS DETAINED IN MANILA
    129 7 A.P. MANIi-A. Tues. Four passengers arriving from Hong Kong aboard a Cathay Pacific Airways plane last night were be ing held by immigration authorities pending an investigation of their claims of Filipino citizenship. The four gave the names of Pablo. 16. Ines 1&, Felix.
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    ULTIMATUM TO LI: RETURN NOW
    342 8 POLITICAL CRISIS NEARS CLIMAX A.P. TAIPEI, Tuesday. NATION ALIST China's long brewing political crisis 11 neared an explosive climax yesteruay. Premier Yen Rsi-shan\s office disclosed he was try ing to resign and the Supreme War Cabinet issued an ultimatum to Acting President Li Tsung-jen to
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    Chiang's Demand Is Reasonable
    157 8 A.P. NEW YORK, Tues. The New York Times yesterday called Nationalist China's rcoommc ndation to the United Nations that a naval and air observation group be sent "to see what takes place in the event of a Communist attack on Formosa "reasonable." In its leading editorial,
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    N. MANCHURIA RAIL LINK WITH S. CHINA
    104 8 Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG. Tues. North Manchuria is being linked with South China by a Communist operated network of railway, according to a Chinese report from Canton. A train left Harbin on January 28 and is due to arrive in Canton some time this week,
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    JAP HIDES FOR FIVE YEARS
    82 8 A.P. GUAM. Tues. A Japanese who hid lor five years in a two-storey building on Tin ian Island was found last Thursday by a U.S. Navy patrol. The man, Murato Susumu Hachijo, 35. said he had neither seen nor spoken to anyone in the five
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    HOMES FOR MacA
    35 8 Reuter. TOKYO. Tins. General IXmglOs Mac Arthur's headquarters today announced that it had directed the Japanese Government to nuild 2,000 more house.; tor the accommodation of 1 United States military personnel. —Reuter.
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    S. A. INDIANS
    38 8 Reuter. JOHANINKSUI kg, rues The South African Indian Congress claimed that expatriation cannot solve the Indian question, in a states ment issued here today. Hut the Congress welcomed the decision to have a conference. —Reuter.
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    U.S. OFFICIALS ASK FOR LESS
    54 8 U.P. WASHINGTON. Tues.— United States officials through a spokesman notified Congress yesterday that the* want only -950.000.000 to carry on the Marshal Plan during, the fiscal year beginning next July 1 $150,000,000 less than, the total earmarked for European Recovery Prcgram in President Truman's Dueget
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    A Bomb Goes Off
    68 8 bomb exploded outside the main entrance J**JJJJ: MivTh lloiises of Parliament. Th c explosion demolished t of the building an* irumaber of bronze statues. There *ere no witnesses of the incident. The incident occurred Just two days Presidential election in Finland. Photo shows A Cammls- naire
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    No Short Cut—Says Court
    217 8 A.P. WASHINGTON. Tues. The VS. Supreme court told federal agencies yesterday that they must not take short cuts in such matteis as deportation hearings jus!, to save the government's t rouble and expense. The court's instruction was in a decision setting aside deportation proceedings against Wong
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    ...BUT LI STAYS PUT
    95 8 The Two Top Men Reuter. HONGKONG, Ties, iCT I N G President Li A Tsung-jen does not Intend to return to Taiwan in the immediate future, according to a Chinese press ci< spatbn from Taipeh. U Tsung-ifn is said u> have informed the Control Yuan to
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    Nationalists Train 100,000 Paratroops
    226 8 Reuter-AAP HONGKONG, Tuesday. THE Nationalists in Taiwan are training WjOOO 1 paratroopers for their comeback on China s mai Ed, according to the Chinese newspaper Sing Tao Pao, in a despatch from Taipeh. The paper said that Nationalist preparations for an invasion of the mainland has
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    SCHOOL CRISIS IN PHILIPPINES
    78 8 U.P. MANILA. Tuc*. .rout, one and a half million Filipino elementary schoolchildren will be unable to enter I public schools next July it t*>A t)ropo«ed 40.000,"<00 peo plash in the Education DeIjuitmem oudget is c*rrvd out. This whs the testimony of Education Secretary P. Langeauon before
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    JAP SHIPS TO INSTAL RADAR
    77 8 Router. TOKYO, Tues.—The Japanese Maritime Safety Board is planning to instal radar on its patrol ship*. Board Chairman Ta-keo Okubo. speaking at the munching of a patrol boat in Nagoya yesterday, declared that the plans, call for the expenditure of 300,000,000 yen on radio equipment
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    PLANT EXPLODES
    33 8 U.P. KTL.AMBKECHT, Tues. ntral Europe's biggest dynamite plant exploded #i«»re on Sunday morning, causing more than $200,000 worth of damage. The only person at the plant, a guard, was killed —U.P.
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    U.S- will buy more tin
    50 9 U.P. SHINGTON, Tues. A. lal Bald today United States to buy as much tor stockpiling before. failure of the tndostry to conntract with the government rinutly means that there is no Snit as to when the wiU modify its m tlayan tin buying Soeramme.—U P.
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    Tin Prices
    58 9 sl N<. IPORE, Fetfc 21: Tin t L S2BS-S7M I"-' P»<*ul Demm si- on the i>UU LONDON. Feb. 20. Down t 1 4 uffis t585' 2 Down (3 I. Nt price £599 3 4. pu«» lurnos- r: tony Down t%. f| loatlM £584• Down ML v. 'ti, iii.
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    RFC Loses On Tin Trading
    124 9 A.P. WASHINGTON, Tues. L SvIS.SOO.OOO on its tin inventories was rethe i .S Congress il Monday by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The agency, which got into isiness during the, wai and still operates a smel- Texas, blamed the loss an devaluation of European in n
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    Along the godowns
    51 9 !*>>fffceseet (44); Buloh ISHEERS Nirdhanu (43 v waag (40 1); LaerMccl Designer (i j rjUbesar (35 6); Dern (31 8): ldomeneus Ol lviinberlev v S.H.B. traft(tl f); (4a 8); frOMS n■ andaara (29 30): Ha fi); talcnas (13- ™y« (Hi; Kanipar *Vila (CP); Kemnaedh,» <» .i); or!,,
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    58 9 maiket opened rday with buyers H44 per picul for"Rio c-buyei i 1 godown asked 145 while $146 was ring, in big v itei came down to lyew then withmatket closed sellers at $144. ittle or no offtake quiet with buyi x. per picul and sellers was an idle
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    SEA MAIL
    14 9 '"-teat Britain. N. Kuiope. Egypt, Africa, West n and the FedeHose today.
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    SIX-MONTH SURVEY OF SHARE MARKET
    295 9  -  MH^TRIAL!S! C r Profile IU Hit I IIS: I P 70% IfffSt LOWS: Stable Down By A Market Correspondent A 0 downward trend in prices was reversed unng the second half of 1949 and, in general, opening prices m July proved to be the lowest
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    RUBBER SHARES
    288 9 PRICE movements in the second half of 1949 to a large extent followed the fluctuations in the commodity and nearly all shares had their lowest bargains early in July when rubbor dropped to 32 >i cents per lb. In July discussions in Washington at cabinet level indicated probable
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    TIN SHARES
    94 9 Although the long term prospects for. tin. coloured the view of most operators, day-to-day fluctuations in the marketing of the metal may be said to have exercise* i little influence over tin shares in the period under review. The Ministry of Supply continued as sole buyer of Malayan
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    LOCAL LOANS
    276 9 Quotations for local loan* suffered substantial depreciation during the half year an<« over much of this period little market existed for a number of taxable issues. However, the short-dated- "tax-free" War Loans commanded a fairly ready sale throughout, as also did the popular 1948 S\k% Municipal issue. Much
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    STEEL NOT HIT
    38 9 A.P. CLEVELAND, Tues.—Stee'making has been running at a surprisingly high level in view of the coal strike. Last week the national steclmaking rate was down one and a half points to 90 per cent.— A.P.
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    LESS U.S. CARS
    39 9 DETROIT, Tues.—Motor vehicle output in the United States last week totalled 117,375 units, Automotive News estimated. It said the Chrysler strike and the coal situation currently are responsible for a production loss of 40,000 vehicles weekly.—
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    Exports Break Record
    149 9 U.P. LONDON. Tues. BRITISH exports reached an all-time record breaking £175,900,000 last month, the Board of Trade announced today. The previous November 1949 record was shattered by £15,500.000 and the January figures were £19.400.000 higher than the four quarter average, the announcement said. Imports, however, weie £4,100,000
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    Comparative Price List
    244 9 INDUSTRIALS The following is a list of representative stocks with their opening highest, lowest and closing quotations Ist July 1949. Highest. Lowest. 31.12.49 Fraser Neave 1 Ordinary) fS.lTtt $3.771,2 $3.32 $3.52 M Gammon 2.17 2 2.60 2.10 2.50 Hammer 38.00 39.00 38.00 39.00 Hong Kong Bank (Colonial
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    RUBBER MARKET
    96 9 The rubber commodity market opened erratic yesterday. There were many sellers in evidence at first, but the market steadied up slightly towatds the close. Closing prices in cents per pound were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 RSS f.o.b. March 53% 54 No. 2 RSS f.o.b. March 531* 5311 No.
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    MAN TO HELP TRADERS
    81 9 At the request of the Trade Advisory Committee, a new Assistant Registrar of Statistics has been appointed to act as Commercial Intelligence Officer. Mr. R. Dow has been appointed to the post. Malayan commercial and industrial firms will be able to get the officer's help in
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    Tientsin Exports
    35 9 HONGKONG, Tues.—Exports shipped through Tientsin. Red China's major shipping centre now that the Yangtze river is blockaded, exceeded imports during the 10 months from March to December, according to reports from Red China.
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    JEN MIN PIAO SLIPS FURTHER
    43 9 HONGKONG, Tues.—The Chinese Communist dollar slipped further, according to Shanghai reports. The U.S. dollar rate was up 2,000 points to 27.000 to ono, pound sterling went up 5,000 to 67,500 for telegraphic transfer and to 40.500 for cash
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    Firm Undertone In Tin Shares
    46 9 SINGAPORE, Tuesday. THE very firm undertone in tin shares continued 1 in the local market, with more buying inquiries from London, though these were at levels unattractive to this market. There was small business in rubbers and industrials continued very steady.
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    843 9 Singapore. Tues. INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 11.90 12.25 xb., xd Alex. Bricks Pref. 2.40 2.50 Ord. 2.20 2.25 8.8. Petrol 35/- 36 B.M. Trustees 730 830 Con. Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/8 Ord. 15/3 16/6 Fraser Neave E. Utd. Ass nr. 39 25 40.25 Cat. Sc Trust Fed.
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    AUSTRALIA SECOND IN ATHLETICS
    126 10 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Tecs -Success of Australian athlete? at Em pire dames in Auckland clearly rhowod that Australia org* entitled to No. 2 ranking liehind America as the world's strongest athletic nation, said Australian Amateur Athletic Union official, Mr. A.J. Hoo:;--don recently. He said Sweden v/afl considered
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    Clubs With Soccer Double Chances
    281 10 Reuter. LrONDON, Tuesday. fLUBS with chances of the League championship and Cup "double" look like reaching the semifinals of the Football Association challenge cup competition this year. They are probably the four most powerful clubs in the League viz, Derby County, Liverpool (present League leaders),
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    State Cricket Calendar
    58 10 F, The following State and representative erie- 1 ket matches' have been arranged for this season: April 8-10 v. Selangor. K.L. May 27-29 Europeans v. Rest, S.C.C. June 10-11 Civilians v. Services, S.C.C. June 17-18 v. Malacca, Malacca. July 1-2 v. Negri. Seremban. July 16-17 v. Johore.
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    TODAY'S SOCCER
    71 10 The Indian Recreation Club 2nd Team will meet the IT.M.S. Unicorn 2nd Team at roectr today at Farrer Park al 5 p.m. The I.R.C. players will be selected from the following! S. Paul, C. P. Phillip. Sokwmhi Pereira. A Rashid. P. I'alani. T. V. Ramakrishnan. S. Kiis'i nan,
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    CLOSE FIGHT IN HOME LEAGUE
    1188 10 LONDON, Tuesday. THE race for honours in the First Division of the English League is close and no one can say who the champions will be. Liverpool who finished in the middle of the table last season are on top. two points separating them from
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    MORE REPRESENTATIVE CRICKET THIS SEASON IN SINGAPORE
    310 10 FOR the first time a team representative of the V Singapore Cricket Association will meet the Combined Schools of Singapore in thi« season. Also for the first time the S.C.A. wih University of Malaya, the fetter match facing the former game against the
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    NEW WOMEN'S SWIM TIME FOR PHILIPPINES
    69 10 A.P. MANILA. Tues.— Bobbysoxer Norman Guerrilo smashed the Philippine women's 200 n<tre.breast stroke record with a three minute 25.6 seconds performance. Only a fortnight ago. another teen aue swimmer from the Philippine Women's University. Lolita Ramilez. shaved so -ids from an earlier mark. Guerrilo's
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    Saigon XI Score Nine Goals To One
    120 10 U.P. MANILA. TUCS. jL visiting South Vietnam A PootbafT eleven completely outclassed a team com-pos-d of selected University" players to win by tne lopsided S";ore of nine goals to one in their first appearance here last night at the Rizal Memorial Stadium. Th"
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    INTERNATIONAL BOXING TOURNAMENT
    108 10 A.P. BRUSSELS. Tues. The International middleweight be :ing competition started ou Saturday night in tne Brussels Sport Palace. All the fights were six three mi-, nutc? rounds. Results were. A. Heven (Belgium*. beat Jean Wannes (Franc). on points. Gus de Couva (France), k.o.ed E. de Lannoy (Belgium),
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    BURMA 'S SOCCER XI IS INTERNATIONAL CLASS
    638 10 THE Burmese soccer team which has been playing in Hongkong is due to arrive in Singapore today to play three matches here. Although the visitors lost three games in Hongkong a Colony XI winning by five goals to two and again by four-two
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    BIGGEST CHANNEL IN VASION
    96 10 A.P. LONDON. Tues. The English Channel Meed its biggest Invasion of swimmers in history this summer. More than 60 would hi -conquerors ol the 19--mile stretch between France and England have signed up for ttte Daily Mails l.noo contest tor me lasl"st time. •And we expect
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    Star Woman Sprister Of The World
    79 10 Marjorie Jackson (18) who established two Games records and twice equalled world records over 100 and 220 yards. She sei a new for the 100 yards at Adelaide when she equalled Mrs Fanny Blankers-Koen's world lime oi 10.8 second reoeaied this at the Game
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    F. A.—LEAGUE SPLIT LIKELY
    423 10  -  By ARCHIE QUICK ANE of the biggest football rows of all time is boiling up as a result of the hint by the Football Association that they are going to consider holding the two Cup semi-finals at Wembley Stadium on March 18 and 25. The ramifications
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    C.Y.M.A. MEETING
    41 10 The lith annual genernt mooting of the Catholic Young Men's Association (Church of Sts. Peter Pau 1 > will be held on Sunday, Kct; 2<>, at the association's premises at i). 30 a.m. All members arc kindly requested to attend.
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    NATIONAL HOPES FAIL TO GET FIRST
    214 10 LONDON, wit, the 10») f3 ourttc for the CjraJld tona! r.tecp'echa?c on Mi r 20. ran a pool fifth ia important (rial on Saturaa] The race at Ssndown Part waa won by Socln 11. liJjJj regarded Grand Nation* entry who wi Mkl in the
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    G.C. Of INDIA LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
    66 10 A.P. BOM HAY. Tv and Joan Inn CrlAet Club oi i- (Knildo* ch»m»>i<>».- v j,m j Imhal Gtisslc- Mo ran ht>« Ktwinm(V 1. «> 1. V.fVrtnk. wMI ,b-5 l>« .-Qiiie the men juuns beating Nar< K. B. Madai». t fo* Guosie Moran »wi j
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    GIVE ME THE SAME PURSE, SAYS SOMPONG
    178 11 VAI SOMPONG. Singapore's welterweight champion. said yesterday, that he was eager to meet Australia's Alfie Sands again. "But," said the Siamese, "I want the same purse I got for the first fight." The pokerface champion explaned that he was not asking for more.
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    Boundary Gives Test Honours To India
    410 11 MADRAS, Tues.- India won Me unofficial Test series with the Commonwealth touring team by winning the fifth and final match here today by three wickets. In a thrilling finish they won with only 11 minutes to spare. At tea India, needing only 35 runs
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    MONTGOMERY CUP
    31 11 Gbi-A/ViA Tues—Field Marshal Lord Montgomery was on UK iudfre's stand to see Rudolpa burtoochi of Abelgodeh, Switztrland, win the Montgomery Cup witth jumps of 54, st> and 58 mejres.
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    Fifteen Selected Against Burma
    317 11 AXE views the prospects of the Singapore Civilians itch against the touring Burmese soccer XI tomorrow with misgiving after watching *he trial en the Possible (Blues) and Probables (Reds) at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The Blues won two-one after a colourless match. T# .V,..i- rrrvi r-l
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    GOBS LOSE BASKETBALL TO HO HO
    156 11 SN Agorholm P. D. tbail team played well to 1 only by 33 points I the Ho Ho team Inter-Cominerical npton) at a match in aid of the University of Ml iya Endowment Fund the Great World last meht. Ti.' Ameri< an sailors were
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    Miss Nathan May Not Start Today
    192 11  -  By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winners. IfUALA LUMPUR, Today. With the going good I have no reason to change my early selections in which I gave Glorify, Token and Trousers as the best bets for Unlay—second day of the Seiangor Turf Club
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    66 11 RACE 1 CHRISTMAS KNIGHT Linkshii Bow Legs R ACE 2 Lll fLE NED 4 Soltara Raheen RACE 3 J GOLD MERIDIAN C harlemagne Jimmy RACE 4 TROUSERS j Sk, .streak Princess Nuffield j RACE 5 SIR GALAHAD Tollana Arabint RACE ti GLORIFY Cabaret No Res rets RACE 7 TOKEN
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    TODAY'S "B" SOCCER INTERNATIONAL
    172 11 A.P. LONDON. Tues. England's long-term plan to build a team for the World Soccer Cup Bnala in Brazil next summer re: a neai end stage at Newcastle on Wednesday, when the Fnr> land B team takes on Holland in a fuU international gains. 0( the "B"
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    BURMESE LOSE FOR THIRD TIME
    108 11 A.P. HONGKONG, Tues. Hongkong administered a third defeat to the Bux;ma bcecer team this evening by four goals to two. The visitors were completely outplayed in the air and their passing along the [round was spotty. The only Burma forward to show speed was Sein
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    Top U.S. Athlete
    38 11 A.P. NEW VOKK. Tw-J.— U\ck Bu*ton ot Englewood, Now Jersey, world and Olympic figure nkatlng tliamplon wus -v.vnr l• i (h.« "tutae* E. 9tt*lH«ll irophv a<: th** outstanding amateur j c .1'« c oi 191U.—A.P.
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    RACE CARD
    1007 11 The f~" t 1 HORSES, CLASS I, DIV. <ooi pu, (EHery) 9.00 Linkfthir (Avrcs) 0.01 < hristma* Knight (Bagbv) BJI Bow Legs (Charles) R*" Materaa (Lansdown) B.rr (.lendale (Jones) 8.04 Kdtnond Dante* > 7.1::S( RATI MINGS: Lucky 1 hr-e P I*> Rod II S.JO River Moon S.Cs Sweet
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    BRUSSELS XI LOSE
    26 11 A.P. BRUSSELS, Tues. me Racing Club of Buenos Ayres beat a Brussels select team by five goals to three in Brussels yesterday. A.P.
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    'BIG FIGHT ON HAINAN'
    279 12 BUT CHIANG'S BOMBERS BLAST NANKING PLANTS A.P. and U.P. HONGKONG, Tuesday. UEAVY fighting has broken out on the Nationaflstn held island of Hainan. This is reported by the crew of a Hongkong-based airliner who flew past the island on a regular flight. Their report that the
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    Russian Troops In China
    144 12 A.P. TAIPEI. Tuedays. T HE Chinese Nationalist Defence Ministry declared today all inhabitants have been ordered to evacuate from within 50 kilometers of the Chinese Changchun railway in Manchuria. It said its intelligence sources reported the zone would be occupied by Soviet troops, but it was
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    SANDERS, VOGELER GAOLED
    63 12 BUDAPEST. Tuesv-Edgax S ele S nced to 13 years n imowe !he Budapest Peoples Court "S&tt Vogeler. an Amen«»r> vice-president oi vn« StVattoAal Telephone md Telegraph Corporation nf New York, who had conM?* W a g secret sers V on tof similar charges. < The court present
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    Under Pressure
    78 12 Reuter U.P. Th" British Government tonight declared that the ••confession" of Edgar Sanders British businessman sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in Budapest today had been the result ck a "sinister technique of interrogation under pressure. Mrs Robert Vogeler appealed to the Hungarian authorities today to release, her husband,
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    Leaders Fear Deadlock in tomorrow's Elections
    309 12 Reuter. LONDON, Tuesday. 4LL British political leaders while professing conA fidence. were today secretly afraid that the general election on Thursday might produce party stalemate and a consequent threat to the nation's economic recovery A deadlock verdict, Parliamentary quarters considered, would mean another election
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    30-Year Pact...
    103 12 In the presence of Soviet frem.tr Jc:.e. Stalin and iViao lactang. President of the Chinese People's hepublic, a 30-year pac oi alliance is signed kl Moscow on February li Picture snows Sovie Foreign Minister Anare Vysinnsky putting his signature to the treaty. Left to right are: A. A.
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    U.S. WARSHIP ARRIVES FOR WAR GAMES
    98 12 A.P-U.P MANILA. Tues. The first group of American warships, which will hold joint manoeuvres with the British fleet units off Western Luzon, next month, have arrived in Subic Bay, according to press dispatches from Oiongapo, Zambales. The dispatches said the units, which arrived, arc
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    INCREASE IN $ EARNINGS
    64 12 INCREASE IN EARNINGS Reuter. WASHINGTON. Tuesday.— Marsnal! plan administrator Paul G. Hoffman today predicted a ten per cent increase in tne dollar earnings d U»« Marshall plan countries and an 11 per cent deciease in the dollar requiieraents for 1«50--51 when he appeared before a joint Congiessional committee. He appea'ed
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    U. N. DISCUSSES MUI TSAI TRADE IN S PORE
    254 12 A.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday. THE United Nations said yesterday human bondage in colonial and trust areas is reported confined to "practices akin to slavery," involving women and of a few Asian and African localities. The traffic includes slave girl trade, or^in*twin
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    JEEP BOMBERS IN MEDAN
    46 12 MED AN. lues. Unidentified persons driving in a jeep tnrew a hand grenade :n a garden between the house of the chairman of wie Sumatra tvucionai Front Party ana the bouse oi a certain Mr. Josuah last weeK-end. reports Ancta n'jws agency.
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    Mr. V. Cables Dr. Hatta: Send Your Representative
    190 12 JAKARTA, Tuesday. THE Indonesian Government announced today that it has informed Russia it is sending a delegation to Moscow to open diplomatic relations. Dr. Mohammed Hatta, Premier and Foreign Minister, recently received a cable from M. Andrei Vyshinsky, Soviet Foreign Minister, stating:
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    H-BOMB IS NOT WITH RUSSIA
    92 12 U.P. LOS ANGELES. Tues. —A top American General said ve.sterday that he does not "believe Russia has the hydrogen bemb in production or nlans a military attack upon th<- continental United States. Lieut. Gen. A'bert C. Wedemeyer. Commanding General of the Sixth Army, told a
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    MALAYANS GO 'CANVASSING' IN LONDON
    83 12 Reuter. LONDON, lues. Three visitors from Malaya today -wont canvassing"' in a Loncon constituency. They were Cap l Hussam bin Onn. son of the Mentri Besar ol Johore. Snche Osman bin Talib. a senior civi: s?rvant. and Mr. Chung >Im lat. representing the Cnines? community.
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    RUSSIANS USED GERMS—JAP
    85 12 A.P. TOKYO. Tues.—A former Japanese army Major accused the Russians themselves of starting germ warfare. The Soviets nave charged that the Japanese, including the rJmperor, were guilty of engaging m germ warfare. The Yomiuri newspaper quoted Hiromoto linuma, who said he had been questioned but cleared of
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    R.A.F. CHIEF TO VISIT MALAYA
    51 12 Reuter. LONDON, Tues.—Air Vice Maishal H. T. Lydford, Comof the Royal Air Force Regiment, today began a 16,000-mile air tour of Regiment unites in tne Far and Middle East. The tour, lasting a month, will include inspecting in Malaya, Iraq and the Aden Pi oteetorate.
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    IT'S OIL!
    23 12 A.P. Frederink, Oklahoma, Tues. —Former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and Western movie star Gene Autry have struck oil in Oklahoma. —A.P.
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    SARAT BOSE'S DEATH IS INDIA'S LOSS News Briefs
    77 12 A.P. NEW DELHI, Tues. Sarat Chandra Bose, outspoken leftwing opponent of Premier Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and President of India's United Socialist Organization, died last night in Calcutta. He was 66. In a short address to Parliament today Mr. Nehru said Bose's death
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    TICKETS SOLD OUT
    37 12 A.P. LONDON, Sun.—Prize fighter promoter Jack Solomon announced yesterday that all 46,000 tickets for the bout between Bruce Woodcock and Lee Savold on June 6 at White City Stadium have been sold. A P.
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    NO VISAS FOR REDS
    33 12 Reuter. i HE HAUi/b, nit s. -Holland is to refuse visas to Foreign Communists wishing to attend the Dutch Communist Party conference starting at Rotterdam on Feb. 25.— Reuter.
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    KING LEOPOLD
    27 12 U.P. BRUSSELS. Tues.—The advisory referendum on King: Leopold's return to the throne is to be held on March 12, it WB3 officially announced today —TT.P.
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    USE A-BOMB TO STOP REDS
    173 12 U.P. TAIPEH, Tues. THE official Kuomintang i Party newspaper today called on the United States to take an active :ole against Communism the world usinK the atom bomb, if necessary, or elso get out of Asia. An editorial in the entrai Daily News sad lha
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    SUNSPOTS ADD 1,000 MILES TO T.V.'s RANGE
    44 12 Reuter. LONDON. Tues.—British televiewers last night picked up pictures from Leningrad and sound from Stocknolm. Experts said sunspots were responsible. Leningrad is 1.340 miles from London and Stockholm 903 miles. Norma, television ran„e is 50 milts. —Reuter.
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    America Has Rights To Mystery Ship
    398 12 Tribune Staff Reporter THE Chinese cargo ship Hai Hsuan, which was 1 boarded by a party of five Europeans <-nd eight Indians who' tried to sail her out of Singapore harbour last week, is a ship in which the American Government has legal rights
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL
    87 12 Y.M.C.A.: The Singapore Q*,* CluO i. i V'"*- wouv, J.3U p.m. Art 11UM p.m. «.etOiaeU n- ll<tl "> ».•»>»»«.</ v i by Ariure a p. uauieu by tin t,i,ver. #> A .iLllii llj.S SlU, L LbulSLAl'lYt. l o I "VrI. ineeniig. v jd jiti,.,,, nMii*i.K'8 I
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    CINEMA
    137 12 CATHAY: "Neptune's Dai >. ter"" at 11, 1.45, i.i.>, j l-.rfd p.m. CAriiOL: "The lns;,, uo General at 11, I. jj, iU(1 V.30 p.m. AjLaI.iM I5RA "(Jhu.-t of Zorio at 1.30. 4.15, 6.45 a;.j p.,., KKa: "Kaehun Hun iay; at 11, 1.45, 4, t> anj p. m. PAVILION: Honeymoon
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    SPORT
    26 12 SOCCSK: S.C.C. v. BODCA »t St. Georges Koad; Indian v. Unicorn «2nd teamsi at F«rw Park; Spore Medical vWmr* U. v. Signals Ay-r Ktjah Road.
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    LONDON SHARES
    188 12 Reuter. LONDON, Tues. Rati 1 have been battened down aid the stock market 'h.p > r«.d* for ony weather that the eit tion might produce. Trading on 'he London Stock Exchange today wa<= i -j nly for the purpose ot Mtlmw outstanding position.- <1 'a ers were showing
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    GETS 20 YEARS
    33 12 A.P. WElZiuA.R, GfcUi?- A?s Tucs.—A United rm»jtary court today four.d vate W. Bailey guilty of murder of a 22-year-old dm nity student, and scntcncrf him to 20 yeais imprifonmcn.. —A.r.
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