Malaya Tribune, 14 March 1950

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    63 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE i BY THE i PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Ttfi "Tnbune' Spore LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 58M/3 Nine Lines Published simultaneously Hi 3 mgapore, Kwua Lump Ipoh and Penang. EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE. TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1950 TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE DON REPRESENTATIVE B
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    Petrol Ration Ends On March 31
    173 1 Reute. AFTER consultation with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Governments of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya ha\e agreed that rationing of petrol throughout Malaya will end on March 31. it win officially announced today. In conjunction with this announcement the
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    Grenade Throwers Hurt 11
    60 1 U.P. PARIS, Mon.—Eleven persons were wounded by grenades in the streets of Saigon today, reports reaching Paris trom the French IndoChinese capital said. The grenades were thrown from automobiles in several sections as part of a campaign of terrorism carried on by supporters of rebel leader
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    AMETHYST IS COMING EAST
    41 1 LONDON, Men. It was announced today that the frigate Amethyst, seriously damaged wnen she ran the gauntlet of Chinese Communist artillery in a daring dash down the Yangtze River, will rejoin the Far Eastern fleet in April.
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    U.S.I. FREES HER IMPORTS
    555 1  -  Cheap Guilders Will Draw Investors BY LAWRENCE G. MANI ii K now thrown hpr exc hange policy, announced over the weekend, hiip'hi»r p\nort« f ,itlre import trade on fret- rate of exchange, her exports are to be encouraged with a free rate on half their worth.
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    TIN: MARKET STEADY
    115 1 U.P. LONDON. Mon.—The tin market was still disposed to pay more attention to the future value of the Indonesian money than it is to the supply and demand for UI SDOt tin recovered in the afternoon two sterling to £599 and three months recovered 12 shilling six
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    WHAT NONSENSE
    34 1 A.P. PARIS, Mon. President Truman s Roving Ambassador Dr. Philip C. Jessup today volunteered to fly hacK to Washington immediately to answer a Senator's allegation that he "was friendly towards Communism". —A.P.
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    U.S. AID MISSION CHIEF
    67 1 Allan Gnriin, hean of the U.S. Aid Mission for South East Asia, who will arrive in Singapore on Thursday, confers at Saigon with a member of the government of the Kingdom of Laos. The mission will cable direct to Washington its report on IndoChina. The report
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    NIGERIAN GETS LIFE FOR KNIFE ATTACK
    59 1 Reuter. LAGOS, NIGERIA. Mon.A young Nigerian worker. 24-yeaf-old Heelas Chukwemeka Ugokwe, was today sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted knife murder of Mr. Hugh Mackintosh Foot chief secretary of the Government of Nigeria. Mr. Foot, who was unharmed, received messages of sympathy and
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    Attlee Refuses To Outlaw U.K. Reds
    165 1 Reuter. LONDON, Monday. DRIME Minister Clement Attlee refused in Par- liament today to introduce legislation to outlaw che British Communist Party. He had been asked to do so "in view of the result of the Fuchs trial" by Sir Waldron Smithers, veteran Conservative member
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    LEOPOLD WINS BUT CRISIS DEVELOPS
    128 1 Reuter. BRUSSELS, Monday. BELGIAN Prime Miniser Gaston Eyskens left Biussels hurriedly by road today, a day ahead oi schedule, to discuss with King Lipoid in Switzerland, the stalemate voting in Sunday s referendum on his return to the throne. He did so after meeting his
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    LAST TO GO
    23 1 Reuter. PRAGUE, Mon.—Czechoslovak authorities have ordered the expulsion of Wallace Toronto last remaim lg American missionary in this country. —Reuter.
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    PEACE APPEAL
    27 1 A.P. NEW DELHI, Mon.—Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan may soon issue a joint appeal asking the people of two Bengal States to maintain peace.— A.P.
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    Couple Fell From Hotel Window
    133 1 A 23-year-old Chinese and a 19-year-old Chinese woman who booked a room in a hotel in Old Racecourse Road on Sunday night, were found half an hour later groaning and in a drain by the side of the road. A passer-by called a member of
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    BENGAL RIOTS CLAIM 3,500 LIVES
    97 1 A.P. U.P. BOMBAY. Mon. —A curfew was imposed today in the mixed Hindu-Moslem area in the centre of Bombay where two people were killed and six seriously injured in communal rioia yesterday. In New Delhi. Indian government officials said today that "about 3,500 persons" had
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    MAN STEALS KISS: IS BITTEN
    128 1 Reuter. TOKYO, Mon. —A 28-year-old waitress today bit the Up of a man who stole a Kiss from her. The man became angry and smashed chairs and ashtrays in the restaurant and escaped. Police did not have to search for the man for long, thanks
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    Why Not Nursing Varsity Degrees? Asks The Countess
    199 1 PENANG, Tuesday. SPEAKING to a large gathering of members of 8 St Johns Ambulance Brigade yesterday at the General Hospital, Counter Mountbat.ten. said that she look forward to the dayjgp nurs.s would get university degrees as doc^s: •If eminent doctors get univerltty
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    U.K. ASSURES Mr. HARRIMAN ON NEW PLAN
    83 1 Reuter. PARIS. Mon.—Britain nas assured Mr Averell Harrtman. Marshall Plan Roving Ambassador, that 'she is "anxious to work out and participate in" a new European payments union. Mr. Harrlman said here today. The new plan, now being drafted by the 18-nation organisation for
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    Labour * w® III SI
    231 1 Labour w® III SI STOP PRESS Reuter. LONDON, Mon—Britain s fortnight old Labour Government tonight threw back a second searching Conservative challenge in the House of Commons by votes. 4 > Voting figures were to 28y. The Liberals voted for the Government. —Router. #BRIBE CASE: #Singh* Win n Appeal Tn
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    116 2 The coffee market was ouiet and unchanged yesterday from last weekend. Copra wan bid for -at $38 per picul f.o.b. Mnr.Apr. Sellers aslwd $08 1/4. Coconut od was bid for at $59) per picul f.o.b. Mar.-Apr. seller* at $62. Sago floar open id steady yesterday with buyers bidding
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    JAP. IMPORTS
    38 2 A.P. NEW YORK, Mon—An increase in Japanese imports was noted at the Annual Variety Merchandise Fair in New York last week. Following Japan, which was by far the most heavily represented, were China, Britain and France.—A.P.
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    Quiet In Tins
    21 2 SINGAPORE, Mar. IS. Indus, rla's conliriued to have somi« inquiries. Tin share* wera quiet with small business pacing.
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    Share Quotations
    850 2 Singapore, Mon. Buyer* Seller* INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 11.90 12.25 xb., xd Alex. Bricks Pref. 2.40 2.50 Ord. 2.15 2.25 8.8. Petrol 33 9 34/9 B.M. Trustee! 7.00 8.50 Con. Tin Smelt Pref 21/8 22/8 Ord. 15/3 16/« E. Utd. Assur. 38.75 39.75 Est Trust Fed Dispensary 6.25 6.75
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    'BRITAIN WILL FACE ANOTHER TRADE CRISIS'
    215 2 WASHINGTON. Monday. Belief is growing among officials here that Britain is heading for another economic "crisis" in 1950 as she did in 1949 and 1948. Some speculated privately Britain's problems may reach a 1950 head earlier than the Augusi-September "crisis" season of the last
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    Along The Godowns
    57 2 Heemskerk (44); Boissevain (42 3); Mirauke (39); Kota Nica (38 9); Silvana (35 6); Muncaster Castle— Nagara (31/2); Chinese Prince (17/8); Kistna (19 '20); C. McLeod (21/2); Segamat (23 4); Bcndoran (25 6); Hoegh Merchant (29 30); Schiedijk (15/6); Glenartncy (134); Burnside (11); Radja (8/9); Steel Seafarer
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    RUBBER EASIER
    88 2 THERE was an air of uncertainty in the rubber commodity market yesterday because of the Indonesian announcement on foreign exchange policy. The price eased by V» cent wrth buying in evidence only for shorts covering. The market was awaiting developments in overseas markets. Yesterday's closing prices in cents
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    Tin Prices
    13 2 The price in Singapore $289 per picul ex-smelter. Down $0-75 cents.
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    SHOPMEN HELPED REDS BURN HOUSE
    612 2 —COURT TOLD JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. Thirteen men—ten Chinese and three Javanese—were charged with being bandit-consorteio before Justice L. V. J. Laville in the High Court today. They were Tai Nai (22), Lim Boon Seng (37), Tan Eng Boon (43), Gun Phoy (29), Kirn (56), Tan
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    MORE JUTE
    67 2 Reuter. SHILLONG. ASSAM, Mon. —Jute production in India's north-eastern border province will be up by 1,515,000 maunds this year, according to official estimates here. The estimates put the area under .iutc in 1950 at 360,000 acres an addition of 100.000 acres ever the 1949 iutc acreage. After the
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    Three Men, One Woman Had No Card
    217 2 THREE men and a were sentence a of six months' gaol D j lor identity ca o yesterday. A Chinese youth can lioned and discharged tnd a Malay was fined $5 a The cases in brief are LIM PENG LIM gton ped in
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      563 2 On Yo ur Radio Today RADIO MALAYA J™*' 5 02 1 '•matic Music; di fte> lUPTU-nnir 35 Kural Broadcast; 5.45 NepaBLL'fc NKmURK Josh Songs; 6.00 World Affairs; 6.10 Hindustani Film Fare: 6.30 ENGLISH PROGRAMMES Time Signal Neiws; 6.40 I iarht 10.00 a.m. News from Kuala Music: 6.58 (losing Annct. with
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    'LUXURY' CLUB ON P. BUKOM
    314 3 DULAU Bukom—on which is situated o*>e of the largest oil installations in the world—drew 200 people from Singapore lor the opening of its new 'luxury' club last Saturday night by Mr. D. H. Palmer, General Manager of Shell Company, Singapore. Present was Mr. W. We/fton,
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    U.S. MEN TO FIND OUT HOW BEST TO HELP
    106 3 SPECIAL United States Mission will arrive in SingaDore from Saieon on Thursday for a five-day visit, the American Consulate General announced yesti rday. The mission, headed by Mr. A. Allen Griffin, is touring South-east Asia to prepare the way for the
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    BURIAL OF POOR HINDUS URGED
    109 3 calling, on the Tamils' Reform Association to unueroaKe tne burial or cremation of tne aeaa bodies ot destitute Hindus was passed at an extraordinary general meeting oi tne Association held recently, at the Ceyton Tamils Association premises. Mr. G. Sarangapani. moving the resolution, saia it
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    4 BANDITS KILLED IN RIVER
    342 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. riVE bandits were shot dead by security forces operating in the Jerantut area of Pahang yesterday. Four of them were killed by a patrol of 1/10 Gurkha Rifles while bathing in the Sungei Pekang. The patrol opened fire at seven bandits. One-
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    TRIED TO MOLEST WOMAN, FINED $30
    89 3 A yount Chinese trlsra rider. Lye Kow. who used criminal force to a married woman with intent to outrage her modesty, was fined $30 with the alternative ot one month's imprisonment in the Fourth District Court yesterday. Lye was stated to have used force
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    TREASURY BILLS
    47 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.Tenders for Federation of Malaya Government Treasury Bills were accepted by the Accountant General. Federation of Malaya, to the extent of $13,450,000. Tenders at the rate of c ,c per annum were allotted in full. The bills will be issued on March 15.
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    BOMB OUTRAGE
    42 3 Mr. W. P. Byrd. Superintendent of the Police Radio Division, will refer to the bomb outrage in Singapore during the week-end and how tne public is affected by such incidents, in Radio Malaya's "Talk of the TxMVtt': sVhi«.3o pm. ionighi.
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    FILM MEN TO 'SHOOT' TROOPS
    352 3 fHREE men from the Crown Film Unit left Singapore today for the Federation to photograph troops at work and at play. What they shoot with their 35 mm cinecamera will go to make a short 12-minute documentary tilrr to be shown throughout the world. "The
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    BLOOD GIFTS
    28 3 I Fifty officers. N.C.O.'s and men of the Malayan Air Training Corps will each give a pint of blood to the Singapore Blood Bank to--1 day.
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    'VOTE FOR JOE...'
    593 4 THE Muscovites have been holding a general election. It may have escaped your notice (for the headlines have not been very big) but Comrade Ivan has been going to the polls just like John Smith did in Britain last month and Joe Doakes did in America in
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    CHIANG'S AIR FORCE WORRIES THE COMMUNISTS
    1206 4  -  by WILLIAM PARROT Reuter-AAP. Hongkong:. THE Chinese Communists must exert enormous efforts if they are to overcome the rapidly increasing problems confronting them. These efforts must be made in a changing atmosphere in which millions of people are losing their first enthusiasms for the
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    A UNIVERSITY SHOULD GOVERN ITSELF
    664 4 WALTER ADAMS, 0.8. E., head cj the Colonial Office Education Department discusses higlttt education in the colonies. THE effective decision to embark on a policy of colonial university expansion was taken in the middle of the war by the appointment of the Asquith Commission. The
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    DRIVER ANTS
    253 4 THE dreaded "Isanafu," or Driver Ants, of the genus Dorylus, have provided the meat of African travellers' stories ever since Europeans first had contact with "the Dark Continent." Quarter-mile long columns of the insects, guarded by •arge-headed and sharp-jawed soldier ants, march straight ahead through house or Native
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    RAT-TRAPS EXPLAIN CHAIN REACTION
    941 4  -  AMERICAN NEWSLETTER by JOHN KERIGAN NEW YORK. AS President Truman prepared to depart for his annual sojourn at the "inter White House" in Key West, in the semi-tropical state of Florida, the state announced the expansion of its popular Everglades National Park. The park, with its
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    MR. LAYCOCK WILL REPEAT HIS DEMAND
    72 5 Mr John Laycock. (Mun. m E) will repeat his call for an early split up of double-member constituency the Legislative ncil into single seats at k's Council meeting, time Mr. Laycock I ask tor written answers n Government to quesking reasons for the delay
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    BETTER COWS FOR KELANTAN
    28 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— i X antan State Couns meeting on March consider an Enactto provide for the I breeding of cattle i State. 1
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    'STRENGTH' MEN, WOMAN GAOLED
    336 5 THREE officials of the Singapore Branch of the Selangor Health and Strength Association wen yesterday sent to gaol for assisting in the management of an unlawful society by District Judge H. K. Kingdom They were: Lee Song Chua, the manager sented to one month's simple imprisonment;
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    SALSU Asks For Rent Allowance
    229 5 THE Singapore Admiralty Local Staff Union has decided to ask for House Rent Allowance for about 500 locally-entered non-industrial i;tdff now living outside the Dockyard area. The Admiralty Superintendent will be requested to seek early approval of this proposal from London. The decision was taken
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    Pirates Rob Tongkang
    57 5 MALACCA, Mon.—Fifteen Chinese armed with sten guns, pistols and rifles pirated a motor tongkaner loaded with provisions at Puiau Rupat last night. They took away copra, dry betal nut. rice and clothing to the value cf $1,300. The bandits also abducted two of the Indonesian crew named
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    COLD DRINKS FOR VOLUNTEERS
    41 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon The people of Arau are themselves taking turns in preparing food and drink for the Anti-Bandit month. The Mentri Besar, Raia Haji Ahmad bin Raia Endut, is also supplying cold drinks for volunteers reerularly.
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    WILL CONTESTED
    45 5 The will of a Chinese business man. Cheong Guan Swee dated April 26, 1933. which presented certain difficulties in regard to construction, formed the subject of legal arguments in the High Court arguments from counsel on both sides, Mr. Justice Evans reserved judgment.
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    Open Vote Men: Why 30-Year Age Bar
    313 5 GOVERNMENT is basing its 30 year age limit for temporaries, who want to be taken on into permanent establishment, on the consideration that a man A'ho might have taken his Senior Cambridge in December 1941 at the age of 21 tfill now have
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    MOVEMENT BAN IN PAHANG
    59 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The squetter area of Sungei Perangin near Tanjong Malim has been declared a controlled area. Movement of foodstuffs in this area has been restricted. The whole area of West Pahang comprising the districts of Kuala Lipis, Raub, Bentong and Temerloh (except the Town
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    3 SURVEYORS FOR SYDNEY
    36 5 Three young Malayans, technical assistants in the Federation Survey department left Singapore by air yesterday to join tne Queensland University. Brisbane, on a four-year course for the degree of Bachelor of Surveying.
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    PENSIONERS IN SERVICE GET A NEW DEAL
    551 5 PENSIONERS re-emplcyed in the Government service will come under a new scheme as from April 1 under which they will get four-fifths of the salary carried by the post which they fill. No cut from this salary will be made on account of
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    TALK FOR GIRLS
    56 5 MALACCA. Mon—Mrs. E. P. Shelley will give a talk on the Penang Hill Railway, at the next meeting of the -viaia.coa rs/caoiO&.\ v.iub oa March 16 at th* Methodist Girls' School Hall, Tranijuerah uoad. The Club's social and dance will be held at the High School hall
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    BOOK SHOW
    46 5 The British Council Books' Exnibltion will oe opened by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya. Dr Q. V. Allen. C.B E at 10.30 a.m. on Sunday, March 26. in the Britisn Council Centre, Stamford Road, Singapore. The Exhibition will last until April 2.
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    REVIEW OF TOUR
    40 5 Countess Mountbatten. Superintendent in Chief of the St. John Ambulance Brigade will b*» reviewln" her tour of Malaya this evening over the Blue Network of Radio Malaya, during "Talk of the Town" between 8.30 and 9 p.m.
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    'Union Club Serves Real Need'
    226 5 r[E past year has been a most successful one for the Union Jack Club. The accounts reveal that the financial position of the Club is very sound and reflect great credit on the management and administration of the Club. This was stated by Sir Patrick
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    CYCLE THIEF CAOLED
    54 5 A Chinese, Chua Thiam Bock, wa.s sentenced to three mcnths' gaol by the Fourth District Judge, Mr. H. A. Forrer, yesterday for the theft of a bicycle. The machine, which belonged to one Govindasamy and wnicn was valued at $110, was stolen at Kampong Bahru on the
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    APPEAL COURT
    25 5 The Court of Appeal (Civii) will sit in the Supreme Court Building, Singapore, on Monday, March 20, at 10.30 o'clock in the forenoon.
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    ROVERS S.C. PLAY SKITTLES WITH S.R.C.
    266 6 CHIN YEE SCORES EIGHT COALS IN A ROW A record in Malayan soccer was created by Chin Yee Kee, the Rovers S. C. centre-forward, at the Jalan Besar stadium yesterday when he scored in a row eight of the nine goals obtained Ly his
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    KOTA RAJA 'A' DEFEAT WEAK INDONESIAN XI
    188 6 The Kota Raja "A" XI played well to defeat a weak Indonesian "A" team at Geylang yesterday By three goals to nil in the Junior A of the S.A.F.A. League. Amir, the inside right, Opened accounts in the 20th minute of play with
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    WEIGHTS FOR TWO DAYS RACES HERE
    805 6 The following are the handicaps for fourteen races to be run on the and second days of the Singapore Turf Club March meeting which ;;egins on Saturday. Ist Day HORSES. (SLABS 2. DIV. 1. 1 MILE A 9 YARDS. BRILLIANT MARC 9.00 EL-ALAMEIN 8
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    MALACCA CRICKET RESULTS
    250 6 MALACCA. Mon. The St. Francis Institution scored an easy nine wickets victory over the P. W. D. Sports Club on Saturday, passing their opponents' score of 50 for the loss of a wicket. Continuing to bat. they ran up a total of 159 runs, the chief contributors
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    NEW BLOOD IN JOHORE
    181 6 A.P. JOHORE BAHRU. Mon —The Johorc Cricket Club commenced its season yesterday with a homc-to-honio match at the Club Padang. The Club's skipper. D. P. Rees. led the captain's team to a five runs victory over Tne Rest. Top scorers for tne v ."i:in>; side were
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    High Praise For Indian Cricket
    373 6 Reuter. BOMBAY Mon. The Commonwealth cricket team, who yesterday won their last match ri their India. Pakistan-Ceylon tour, against tne Bombay Governor's XI were today packing their bags, ready for their departure after what manager George Duckworth described as "a very huopy tour." Eight members
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    R.A.F. CHANGI GOLF CLUB ANNIVERSARY
    136 6 A field of 77 competitors took part over the weekend in the R.A.F. Changi Golf Club first anniversary Spring meeting when the Founder's Cup presented by Air Marshall Sir Hugh Lloyd, was won by Sgt. T. Mounsey of the Base Personnel Office with a score
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    TUANG MONG WIN A HARD CAME WITH R.A.
    198 7 After a hard fi&ht, with orelesa first half, the Tuang Mong 0.8.A. defeated the Ist. Singapore Regt. R.A. by two goals to nil, in their Junior B-l soccer match, at 8.0.D.C.A. ground yesterday. hiing Mong started well in the first half, attacking
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    BASKETBALL IN JAPAN
    85 7 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO, Mon. —A Japanese American basketball teaem from Hawaii defeated a Japan- s! team in Tokyo on Mar. 11 by 64 goals to 46 in rst of a nationwide c The American Athletic Union last week banned any matches by the Hawaiian team in Japan for
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    KIMBOLTON, LA WAN DO SMART THREE
    224 7  -  FAST WORK AT BUKIT TIMAH THIS MORNIiNG BY ALBERT SPENCER The Man With 2,000 Winners LIMBOLTON (Tulloh) and La Wan (Healey) were the best workers this morning at Bukit Timah when the No. 2 grass track was open for fast work. With no rain
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    SIX NATIONAL CANDIDATES WIN CHASE
    104 7 A.P. WOLVERHAMPTON. Mon.Six Grand National candidates were beaten on Monday ir. the Ingestre Handicap three nine chase at Wolverhampton. Mighty Five won the race by six lengths with Tommy "lraodles and Cormoran, h >ih National horses, second and I bird. Rowland Roy was a >od
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    AUSTRALIANS TROUNCE OTAGO BY AN INNINGS
    100 7 Reuter. DUNEDIN, Mon.--The Au.'tralian cricket tourists in New Zealand beat Otago by an innings and 356 runs in their threeday match here Replying to the tourists first innings total of 568 for revon wickets declared Otago made lib and 96. m Bert Sutclifte. who
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    PENANG TURF CLUB RACE SUCCESSES
    259 7 PENANG. Mon. At the recent Penang race meeting Ayers and Bagby each rode four winners but the latter heads the list of successlul jockeys with three seconds and two thirds. Training honours went to W. Lewis who beat Yong Thau Yin for first place by
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    PROMISING FUTURE FOR BRITISH ATHLETIC
    365 7 LOND.ON, Monday. THE state of British athletics as presented by the annual report of the Amateur Athletic Association gives promise of a better showing by the country in international competition in the near future. Last year was the most successful since the formation of the
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    Scottish FA cup draw in semi-finals
    51 7 Reuter. LONDON, Mon—The draw for the Scottish Cup semi-finals to be Dialed on AprU 1 was made today anu resulted as follows: Queen of the South or Aberdeen vs. Rangers or Raith Rovers and Parties. iuisue vs. East Fife. Venues have not yet been
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    MORE SWIM RECORDS BY AUSTRALIAN
    129 7 Reuter. NEW YORK, Mon.—There world swimming records were bettered in the United States last night, two of them by John Marshall. Australian Olympic swimmer now studying at Yale University. Marshall, competing for Yale against Harvard at Newhaven, Connecticut, won the 440 yards freestyle ill 4
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    Orient Title Fight Approved By Board
    363 7 THE Singapore Boxing Board of Control has now approved the Orient Welterweight title fight between Boy Brooks, the holder, and Alfie Sands the challenger on Friday. The bout will be staged at the Happy World Stadium. The Board's approval is made subject to the
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    SURE & STEDFAST
    29 7 SURE STEDFAST Sure k. Steadfast Club will play a friendly soccer match aeains' the Paya Lebar M.Y.F. XI to day at the V.M.C.A. ground. BaleMier Road at 5.15 p.m.
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    TWO CHANCES IN FRENCH XV AGAINST WALES
    117 7 Reuter. PARIS. Mon.—The Frencn Rugby Union team to meet Wales at Cardiff on Mar. 25 shows two changes from that which beat England 6-3 at Paris last month. Pomathios comes in at wing three-quarter Instead of F. Cazenave (Racing Club) and Fournet replaces
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    BROOKS HAD THE UPPER HAND
    59 7 Reuter. MANILA. Mon.— Boy Brooks, weighing 156 lbs. retained hit middleweight title when he registered a technical knockout against Dencio Cabanela Jr.. 150 lbs., in the ninth lound in the main attraction of a boxing show at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum here. Boy Brooks had
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    RED SHIRTS EXPECTED TO WIN CUP
    262 7 Reuter. LONDON Mon.—lf colour means anything Liverpool or Arsenal should win the Football Association's cup this year. They are favourites at present but Chelsea and Everton no doubt have other ideas. The reason is that both Arsenal and Liverpool are red shirted teams and
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    Australian Cup Won In Record Time
    136 7 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE. Mon.—Mr. P. Stewart's Bold John by John James out of Vulgar Verse today won the A £4.000 (about £3.200) Australian Cup In record time over two miles, one and a half furlongs at Flemington here. Starting at 12-1, Bold John, ridden by
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    INTERMEDIATE CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR AMATEURS
    93 7 Fifty contestants who have not taken part in the final ot the S.A.B.A. tournament have so far entered for the intermediate boxing championship to be staged by the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association, from March 21 tc 23 at the Happy World Stadium. Two winners in the
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    Seretse's Tribesmen Boycott Meeting
    216 8 Reuter, U.P. SEROWE, Mon. BAMANGWATO tribesmen today completely boycotted the keotla (tiibal gatherJ ing) called by the British High Commissioner to tell them officially that Seretse Khama their chieftaindesignate hat, been exiled for five years. 'At the same time, the tribe informed the British administration that
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    Attlee Fares Revolt On Seretse Ban
    77 8 A.P. LONDON. Mon. Prime Minister Attlee will try to stamp out a smouldering revolt among the Labour MPs angry at Britain's decision to ban thie* eieet Sereiee Khama and his white une from the Bamangwato reserve in Becuuannaland. Qualified informants reported this soon after
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    CHIANG'S GUERILLAS AND BOMBERS ACTIVE
    344 8 RAIDS TO BE MADE ON NORTH CHINA SOON Reuter, A.P. U.P. TAIPEH, Monday. RATIONALIST bombers and guerillas struck a 1 fresh blows against the Chinese Communists on the mainland today as a new Cabinet prepared to begin to function in Formosa. Tne bombers' main target
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    NAVAL GAMES A 'SUCCESS'
    55 8 MANILA. Mon.—The recent joint American naval manoeuvres with the British Far East Fleet had been "very satisfactory" and seamen and airmen of the British and American groups had been chiefly engaged in integrating their communications systems, Admiral Vice-Admiral Russel S. Berkey said in a news conference
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    Malayans For Rubber Meet Named
    103 8 The Secretary of State has nominated the following M Mala van representatives In the British Colonial territories delegation for the seventh meeting of the Ruboer Study Group to be held in Brussels on May 2. The. Federation and Singapore: Mr. J. A. E. Morley. MBE,
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    Dutch Immigration Official Held
    178 8 TURKO'S ESCAPE TO S'PORE Reuter-AAP. JAKARTA, Monday. INDONFSIAN security police have arrested a 1 Dutch official in the Indonesian Immigration Department in connection with the escape of Captain Raymond "Turko" Westerling to Singapore, it was learned authoritatively here today. He was Director of Immigration until the
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    TWO DIE IN BOMBAY RIOTS
    59 8 U.P. BOMBAY. Mon. Two people were killed and 12 seriously injured in a communal clash on Sunday night in the city's Durgadevi area, it was officially announced today. The injured, presently hospitalized, were reported in serious condition. It ap pears that rival groups clashed at
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    Abbott Weds Ex-Wife
    42 8 U.P. SPRINGFIELD. Mon.—Wedding bells rang again on Sunday night for comedian Bud Abbott and his 32-year-old wife. The couple were re-married in Jewish faith by Rabbi Samuel Harris in a surprise ceremony at the wedding reception of another couple.—U.P.
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    Pensioners Reject Government Scheme
    292 8 KUAXA LUMPUR, Monday. THE Pan-Malayan Pensioners' Association, at an extraordinary general meeting heldl here yesterday, rejected the Government Scheme for that the cost of living allowance be calculated at the same rate as paid to serving office™ and from August i, 1947, it should be calculated
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    GUBITCHEV LEAVES
    27 8 A.P. NEW YORK, Mon.—Valentin Gubitchev notified the Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan today of his desire to leave the U.S. on March 20 aboard the Batory.—A.P.
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    Ex-Premier Votes
    30 8 Mr. Constantine Tsaldaris, a former premier, leader of the Royalist-Conservative Populi X Party easting his vote at Athens during the Greek ele turns. —A.P. Photo. mj A.r. Pholo.
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    Bevin Will Make Statement On Red China Soon
    270 8 Reuter. LONDON, Monday. BRITISH Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin hopes L to make a statement on Britain's relations witii Communist China as soon as negotiations now proceeding in Peking are concluded. This was announced in Parliament today by Mr. Kenneth Younger. Minister of
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    MORE MILITARY AID FOR U.S.I.
    66 8 Reuter. MANILA, Mon. Morn United States military assistance to the Philippines will be forthcoming following the signing of a supplement to the existing military agreement between the two countries, it was officially announced today. United States Ambassador Myron M. Cowen yesterday signed for the United
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    CHINESE NOT ALLOWED TO LAND IN H.K.
    58 8 Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG, Mon.— j Seventy Chinese passengers aboard a British vessel which arrived from Singapore yesterday were refused to land here by the immigration authorities. The passengers were destined for an undisclosed Chinese port. The passengers were ordered to remain aboard until the
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    GENERAL FAROUK
    22 8 Reute r. CAIRO, Mon. —King Farouk has been made an honorary general in the Britisn Army, tonight's court circular announced.—Reuter.
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    HALT REDS ON INDO-CHINA BORDER—MacA
    321 8 A.P. and Reuter. TOKYO, Monday (JENERAL Douglas MacArtV\ur and his v believe Communism must be stopped French Indo-China border. They believe that direct militry aid should hi> given to the French and that other South i Asia nations should be bolstered by a firm announcement
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    $1,000,000 CO UP IN SMOKE
    39 8 Reuter MANILA, Mon.—An eariy morning fire today destroyci nearly half a block containing business establishments in downtown Manila. Pro perty estimated by the police to be worth about $1,000,000 went up in smok .—Reuter.
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    THE KING LEADS MOURNING FOR TUDOR VICTIMS
    310 8 Reuter, A.P., U.P. CARDIFF, Monday. THE King and the Prime Minister led shocked Britain into mourning today for the victims of the worst airplane crash in history. Meanwhile, a sorrowing queue of Welshmen testified today at the inquest of 80 peoule. killed in
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    U.S. OFFERS TRIBUTE TO KING OF SIAM
    103 8 A.P. BANGKOK, Mon. A United States offer to fly a formation of 50 flgnter planes from the aircraft carrier Boxer over Bangkok and drop a paper floral tribute to the returning King Pumiphon of Siam was placed before the Thai cabinet this morning.
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY
    183 8 GENERAL ABT KXHIKI m.\ Counc.l Hail. s\ CHINESE Y.M.( Chess and chw s weight lifting 6.30 p m are of self defend (ommen.ial and -En-,li.';i 5-9 p.m. Siud-or-partv .',.30 o.m. Y.W.C.A.: St. PatnHca social «»nd dan<e at Raffle? Quay. LIAN LI BKNEVOLI N v ~N Twa Loh
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    LONDON SHARES
    192 8 Reuter. LONDON. Mon—A ftn was shown by tomtit 1 on the London stock t* mm today. Small gain* were b widespread fn Britten Coven* ment funds and laiustrW groups Nevertheless the i iark< i I rk< 1 life or driving fon-e for wtuck the approach of or. 1
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