Malaya Tribune, 10 June 1950

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    63 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE BY Wg PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE TeJt 'Tribune* Spore LARGER SALE THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 3811/3 Nine Lines Published simultaneously at Bmgapore. Kuala Lumpur, ipoh ang Penang. EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1950 TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Af auric* Olover,
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    CHAMP IN ACTION
    48 1 TOP: TAN GWAT TEK (left) misses a right cross to Jagir Singh's face at the Happy World Stadium last night. BELOW: The new Featherweight champion of Singapore. Tan Gwat Tek, receiving the cup from Mr. R..VC. Wills. (Full Report Pa?e Six) Tribune Pictures. Tribune Pictures.
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    YARD PROBE ON B.B.C.
    61 1 Reuter. LONDON. Fri. Scotiand Yard. Brian's criminal investigation headquarters, stated today it is to probe allegations of bribery at the State controlled British Broadcasting Corporation. The Director of Pub ie Prosecutions has asked for a full police investigation of a secret report passed to him last
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    ACSU Turns Down Housing Allowance For Married Men
    183 1 Tribune Staff Reporter THE Army authorities in Singapore wired London last night that the Army -Civil Service Union has turned down their proposal to give housing allowance only to married members of their civilian staff. j, The Tribune which published exclusively on
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    SHOT ITSELF
    35 1 Reuter. F \KEXHAM. Norfolk, Fri. —A burst of fire from one of its own guns caused the North Sea crash of the American I Superfortress. Commander I Henry J. Walsh said today.— Reuter.
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    Remanded
    82 1 Captain Turko Westerling, whose extradition is sought by the United States of Indonesia, appeared in the First District Court at 10 a.m. today before Mr. H.E. Kingdon. He was remanded in custody until June 21. Mr. F. R. Massey defending Turko. said time was needed to produce "a certain
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    Tell The Police
    123 1 THE police want your help. Did you witness the road accident which occured at about 6 p.m. at Cairnhill Road yesterday? It you did. tho Police appeals to you to give them information. This is what is believed to have happened: Two motor-cyclists were seen racing along
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    GRIFFITHS MAY VISIT MALAYA AGAIN
    131 1 Reuter. CALCUTTA, Friday. DRITISH Colonial Secretary Mr. James Griffiths. on his way home from Singapore hinted in Calcutta today that he may revisit Malaya, in the near future. He declined to discuss the Briggs Plan, which he described as "a close secret of the War
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    NEHRU FOR MEXICO
    23 1 U.P. MEXICO CITY. Fri.— Pandit Nehru has accepted an invitation from President Miguel Aleman to visit Mexico in September. —U.P.
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    BEST BETS FOR TODAY
    45 1  -  BY ALBERT SPENCER The Man With 2,000 Winners My two best bets for I todav are O(M) MERIDIAN and LA TRAVIATA. I If the weather holds, the going will be good but not fast after yesterday's heavy shower. See Page 7.
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    NEW SECRETARY
    19 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Mr. A. W. Morgan has assumed duties as Secretary to the British Adviser Perak..
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    WOMAN HELD
    36 1 A.P. TOKYO, Fri.—L\ S. Army Criminal Investigation agents ordered a British transport plane to return to Haneda airport in Tokyo just after its takeoff yesterday. They took one woman passenger into custody for questioning.-A.P.
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    VIETNAM DECLARED EMERGENCY STATE
    259 1 Bao Dai Signs Sweeping Laws A.P. SAIGON, Friday. THE Chief of State Bao Dai declared a virtual state of emergency for the 1 French sponsored state of Vietnam today by enforcing gulations to suppress widespread terrorism and Communist activity Dv tne vast underground movement of the
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    GOVERNOR OF NIGERIA SACKS POLICE SUPDT.
    71 1 Reuter. LONDON, Fri.—The Governor of Nigeria, Sir John MacPherson, has decided that Senior Police Superintendent F. S. Philip, who gave the order to fire on striking miners at Enugu last November shall not return to Nigeria. This was disclosed today simultaneously with the publication
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    TIN PRICES
    43 1 U.P. LONDON. Fri. The tin market showed signs of profit taking with spot down £l-i shillings to £610-£ and three months down £l-i to £612. The close was barely steady. The turnover was 60 tons making 210 tons for the day.—U.P.
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    MR. WARIN DEAD
    28 1 Mr. J. W. Warm, wellkno*>i Singapore commercial artist, died this morning in the General Hospital. The funeral will be at Bidadari tomorrow at 5 p.m.
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    Police Search For Missing Swimmers
    192 1 MARINE Police are patrolling a large area of the foreshore near Chapel Road. Katong. this morning searching for the bodies of a Chinese man and woman who are believed to be drowned. The clues that they are working on are two little bundles of clothes
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    H.K. CRITICISED FOR WITHHOLDING VISAS
    107 1 U.P. LONDON, Friday. THE weekly, Economist, castigated the Hongkong 1 government today for withholding visas into Chinese territory for Chinese Britain because of the collapse of the Chinese Nationalist Government. •'Some ot these students are not quite destitute but thes cannot return to China because
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    Harry Gold, Philadelphia chemist, who was charged today by the Brooklyn Federal Grand Jury for conspiring with atom – spy l-uctvs to eive U.S. aiom.c secrete lo Russia.
    27 1 Harry Gold, Philadelphia chemist, who was charged today by the Brooklyn Federal Grand Jury for conspiring with atom spy l-uctvs to eive U.S. aiom.c secrete lo Russia.
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    TRAIN FIRE
    31 1 Reuter. C All ST AIRS, Lanarkshire. Fri. Police believe that the fire which swept a Birming-ham-Glasgow expree? train last night, ki ling five passhave been caused by train robber-.—Reuter.
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    PAMPHLET ATTACK ON TAN KAH KEE
    565 2 He Criticised Our 'Holy War Say Reds rommunist documents, now in the hands of the Special Branch of the C.1.D., attacked Mr. Tan Kah Kee, the Singapore industrialist. These documents, which carry no dates but are believed by the police to be written between
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    'Potential Reds'
    149 2 Boys From China: CHINESE school children who left the Colony and are now studying in China were described as potential Communist elements by Mr. K. C. B. Wiltshire. C.I D. Chief. He stated: "These students, when they come back here, make ready unpaid ambassadors for the Keds. By
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    No Change In Recruitment Policy
    98 2 -Police There is to be no change in the policy of local recruitment to the police force. A Police spokesman when asked about the Colonial Office drive for more police recruits for Malaya, which started yesterday, said any recruitment in Singapore will be for local
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    TALK ON RUBBER WAGES POSTPONED
    85 2 One representative from the Singapore Rubber Millers' Association and nine representatives from the Singapore Union of Rubber Workers yesterday met at the Labour Department to continue their negotiations for settling a wages dispute. Mr. R. Middleton-Smith. who was in the chair, said that the negotiations
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    KREML LEAVES
    37 2 The Russian oil-tanker Krem' left Singapore yesterday with 9,000 tons of diesel oil for Vladivostock. loaded in Black Sea ports. The Kreml, which has called here previously is now on the regular Black Sea-Vladivostock tun.
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    OUTSIDE BUYING WENT ON GAILY
    249 2 THIS WEEK IN RUBBER— THE market rose to a new peak this week in nervous trading when July shipment was done at 97 cents, the highest since 1926, says the rubber market review for the week issued by Lewis and Peat Ltd., last night. It
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    Down To 93 Cents Yesterday
    138 2 The rubber commod ty market opened steady yesterday at 96 cento per pound of F.rst grade for July shipment. But after some business had "Mated Bfc tins level, sellers predominated. All orders being rill 1. including those for lower trade, tho price eased off 10
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    Along The Godowns
    70 2 Ophir «44); Fossams (sheers) lVlens '42 3): Mcne-ttheus '2/ 3); Wakde <40) Elisabeth B.'JvU. (.*B/8) fly tag Independent (35/ M); st el \k >(w2) Trluei I (Empire Bock): Gorgon (H/8); Rurhill (19/20); Phrontis (25/6): >ulla di Brujine (27/t); Gujarat eJSL/30); Ola—Traj (13/6); Kam- par <H): Adrastus (IS
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    Tin Prices
    85 2 SINGAPORE, June 9: Yin price was $304 1/2 per picul ex-smelter. Ip $1 7/8. LONDON, June 8: Spot £611. I p £4 1/4. Three months £612. I n £4 1/4. Settlement price £f. 11 1 4. Ip t4 1 l. Turnover: 105 ton*, sKCOM I> SKSSION Spot £612*.
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    PRODUCE MART
    94 2 Leading produce ptloat in Singapore yesterday were: Copra Sel ers $36 1/2 birjran $36 per p eul f.o.b. June/July. Coconut oil easier at $00 per picul f.o.b. June July in second hand drums. Zanzibar cloves, $117 1 2 done per picul ready. vith furlhei buy era at $117.
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    WEEK'S PRICES
    95 2 High*si and loweJM ptiefts during tho week ending June fl 195*1 arc: Highest Lowest Closing Buyers Noon Spot IoOM %.n/4 89.1/2 94.1 2 R.M.A.I R.S.S. F.O.R. June P6.1/4 90 94.:; 4 R.M.A.2 R.S.S. F. 0.8. 96 88.1/4 94 R.M.A.:i R.S.S. X.ii.l!. 86.1/4 '.'2.3,1 R.M.A. 1 Pale Crepe FOB
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    PRICES RISE IN TIN SHARE
    163 2 SINGAPORE, June 9. rplN sMarcs res ponded to the I bettor price of the motel to- day and there were numerous gains in tins section which j had fair activity and closed firm. Industrials showed a firm undertone. The following are the price changes announced
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    SEA MAILS
    61 2 Mails are expected from Nortn Borneo. Labuan Brunei. Mlrt. Java. Australia. Hongkong. China japun and th«- Federation today J Mafl?tOr Thailand. Phllnnines tCelaatan. Western Australia. Japan. Hongkong. China and Java will clopo at noon, for ihe Federation at 5.45 a.m. and for Ceylon, Great Britain. N. Ireland, tire.
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      331 2 BLUE NETWORK *TS TIA v h V n L 8.T5 News, 8.30 Kal.kshebam. 6.52 Tamil Duet ENGLISH PBOt.KAMMES Mri 11 g k! 30 I^ln c D a nuVe-—A 9M 1(,00 a.m. New* from Kuala KS£"S i£feS&%JL SSS RED NETWORK Lumpur. 10.05 CLOSE DOWN. hr. 9.00 Van. y Bandbox. »30 INDIAN
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    Saturday Show Round-Up
    1870 3 TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH (Capitol). This is one of those war films which Hollywood have of recent years become so adept at producing, but H<e "Command Decision" it nas a theme better suited for the stage. Taking a leaf from British pictures, the Director. Henry King, has concentrated
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    INDO-CHINA
    610 4 ANY hope that the Western powers may.have had of being able to sell the Bao Dai regime to Asian countries has been rudely shattered by two of Asia's great leaders. At Jakarta, Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and President Soekarno made pointed references to Indo-China. Their speeches may be regarded
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    FRENCH VILLAGES BECOME WORLD CITIES
    860 4  -  by YVES CAUSSE Reuter. PARIS A CALL for a "peopled mediation" between East and West will go out from a "World Citizen*' Week" in Cahors, old and picturesque town in Southern France, this month. Cahors. sometimes known as "Cahors-Mundi" (world city) and tho first town
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    WOULD THEY FIGHT A GUERILLA WAR?
    791 4  -  IF BRITISH REDS ARE RAWED... by HUGH LAMING Reuter. SAIGON. WOULD British or Australian communists right a guerilla war from the mountains if the party were banned?" That was the question put to me recently by a Vietnamese Cabinet Minister while we were discussing
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    MACHINE FINDS ITS OWN ERROR
    155 4 Reuter. NEW YORK. A device which enables an intricate calculating machine to detect its own errors and to correct them has been developed by scientists at the Bell Telephone laboratories. Previously the best that a computing machine has been able to do was to recognise
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    CONTRACTORS REPLY TO MR.LEONG
    601 4 [tub: 'people's PosniVt;: Sir. To allow the implications of Mr. Leong Yuen Haw s press statement as President of the Sawmiller's Association against restricted timber exports to go unchallenged would amount to a gross insult to the intelligence of contractors as well as the reading public.
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    Rice Communists
    363 4 SAN FRANCISCO. THE "rice Communist" has fastened himself on Red China. A "rice Communist" is one who pretends to go along with the Reds simply to keep his job or to stay out of trouble. He is not a convinced Communist. He may be opposed to Communism, but
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    ntitled Tan, Yang Cher, 11 dauKht. r ol Mr. and Mrs. Tan Huok K«ng of Sen* Mvi OtMKnitfa <'*»• Ltd- *M « form. r pupil of the C onvent <>f ;h< Ho»y Infant Jesu» will leave l>v the Gorgon tomorrow t->r WiMralia for furth»r studies. vh. wiß complete net vnior at Me'lar Maris Col-He and prepare lor a course In m» dxine.
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    THE MAN WHO HAD NO PLACE, PERMIT, FRIEND
    69 5 Pang Thin Koey, 17, who arrived from Hongkong three days ago without a landing permit, surrendered to the "~vip~ that he had neither a place nor a re- c tO tne colony. Yesterday, he was sentenced by Mr. H. E. Kingdon, the
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    Rejected Suitor Tried To Kidnap Girl
    231 5 cup PI AH, a young love-sick Indian, was sentenced to three months' hard labour by the First District Judge yesterday after he was found guilty of breaking into a house with intent to kidnap a girl to whom he had unsuccessfully proposed on three
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    TRINITY TERM ENDS TODAY
    53 5 Graduates of the UniverMalaya had a busy packing their bags. Reaa m Trinity Term ends today. Most ol the graduates who will be going home today are art;, and science students whose examinations are over. But the medical laminations which began later in the month are
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    BANNED SEX FILM PLAYING IN FEDERATION
    80 5 '•Sins of the Fathers"— f he second sex-hygiene film banned by Film Censor Jack Evans for showing in. Singapore—has been prss a d for upcountry showing •by the Federation Appeal Board. The film, made in Canada, has created enormous interest, wherever it has been
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    RECEIVING ORDER AGAINST COMPANY
    43 5 The Chief Justice, Su Charles Murray-Aynsley, yesterday made a receiving order against Nghee Seng Rubber Co. The receiving order was made on the application of Chin Hock Chiang Co.. the judgment creditor, on a judgment debt amounting to $41,000.
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    SULTAN TO APPEAL TO PRIVY COUNCIL
    316 5 I*HE Sultan of Johore is appealing to The Privy Council against the decision of the Colony Court of Appeal in a land dispute in which it was held that he must submit himself to the jurisdiction of the court though he enjoyed certain attributes
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    BOOK REVIEW PRIZE OFFER
    76 5 Radio Malaya. Singapore, has announced a prize of $15 each month to the best review of a book originally published within the last five years. The review should be about 500 words long and entries should be sent to Book Review Competition, Radio Malaya, Singapore. The
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    IPOH PARTY
    17 5 IPOH. Fri.—Over 400 guests attended a garden party on the occasion of the King's birthday.
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    2 Men, One Woman Get Divorce
    101 5 Three decrees nissi which were granted recently were made absolute by the Chief Justice Sir M. Murray-Ayn3-ley. in the High Court yesterday. First case: Mr. Chou riui King who had been granted a decree nisi against his wife. Lily Chou, on the ground of
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    Foreman Gets Empire Medal
    223 5 MANY years of devoted service to the Crown have brought the award of the British Medal to Mr. Chang Nam. foreman in charge of the General Fitters' Shop in R.E.M.E. Base Workshops, Singapore. Mr. Chang's name appears in the King's Birthday Honours List. More details of
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    First Pilgrim Ship Leaves For Arabia
    181 5 THE first ''pilgrim ship to leave Malaya for Saudi--1 Arabia left Singapore yesterday carrying 618 Muslims to Jeddah. It was the Blue Funnel vessel Tyndareus. The 618 pilgrims were made up of 59 Muslims from Singapore and 559 from the Federation. At Penang more
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    NEW SECRETARY
    19 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Mr. A. W. Morgan has assumed duties as Secretary to the British Advise. Perak.
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    40 BABIES COMPETE FOR PRIZE
    156 5 THE Social Welfare Centre at Gillman Barracks was turned into a nursery yesterday when more than i forty Singapore mothers brought their babies to compete for the "bonniest baby of them all." Mrs. J. Spehhard's three-months-old baby. David, took the prize for the under six
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    PNEUMONIA WAVE PERSISTS IN FEDERATION
    73 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Twenty-six people died of pneumonia in the Federation during the week ending May 27. A total of 105 cases were reported. Penang registering twelve cases with seven deaths. There "were 107 seizures and 26 deaths during the preceding week. There were 33
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    YOUTHS WANT SEAT IN IPOH WELFARE BODY
    72 5 IPOH, Fri. Tuan Haji Abdul Wahab. Mentri Besar of Perak, addressing 18 representatives of the Youth Organisation in the Council Chamber today said that their meeting is a good augury for the future. Ihe Mentri Besar congratulated the youths for their wisdom in
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    SHIP-OWNER FINED $1,000
    41 5 Wong Wen Ha. owner of a tongkang. was fined $1,000 in the First District Court yesterday for not carrying efficient life-saving appliances in his vessel and permitting it to ply without proper complement of officers. He pleaded guilty.
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    Robertson Protests Over Griffiths' Visit
    205 5 JJ t MR. L&gt;. Robertson, Progressive Commissioner for M Municipal South, has protested to Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson that when Mr. James Griffiths, Secretary of State for the Colonies, visited the Tione Bahru flats last Sunday neither thes Mumthe legislative Councillor for the
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    THEFT CHARGE
    47 5 Alwi bin Talwi, 26. who waa charged with theft of ten bal!-bearings worth $50 from the R.E.M.E. workshop claimed trial in the Third Magistrate's Court today. He *as allowed bail on $200 with one surety and the case was postponed to June 16 for nieniion,
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    TAN GWAT TEK WINS CLOSE DECISION
    969 6  -  JAGIR SINGH STARTED A BIT TOO LATE By RONALD DUCLOS TAN GWAT TEK, the Indonesian featherweight champion, was crowned the featherweight champion of Singapore at the Happy World Stadium last night. The battle went the full of distance of 15 rounds and the boy
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    Som See Wants To Fight Tek
    106 6 NAI Som See. Siamese featherweight, who issued a challenge to the winner of last night's fight, is not backing out now. He is willing to take on Tan Gwat Tek, the new featherweight champion oi Singapore. Som See complained he had not been given
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    Johore Beat Malacca 5-1
    170 6 MALACCA, Fri. WHAT hopes Malacca Malays had of being the southern finalist in the Sultan's Gold Cup soccer competition were shattered yesterday when they were trounced one-five by Johore Malays at the Malacca Stadium yesterday. jonore opened scoring through Awang Hamid in the second minute through
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    Raffles Inst. To Have Pole Vault
    247 6 rOR the first time in the history of this school's sports, Raffles Institution will introduce pole vault in its annual sports meet to be held on July 15. Mr. C. A. Sinnathamby. the school sports master, said more and more boys were showing keen
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    MISSED!
    24 6 JIMMY WELCH parries a right cross by George Sands last night Note cut under right eye of George Sands. —tribune Picture. tribune Picture.
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    Berry, Edrich Put England In The Lead
    407 6 Reuter. MANCHESTER, Friday. A SUSTAINED performance of intelligent, accurate bowling by Lancashire slow bowler Bob Berry, who took five for 63 in his first Test, and a stubborn unbeaten knock of 56 by Bill Edrich placed England in what may prove to be
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    SPRINTER WEDS
    30 6 A.P. MELBOURNE, Fri. Shirley Stric kland. Austral a s O ynipic star, was two hours late for her wedding. At the church she broke down and wept. A.P.
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    Goalie Carried A Gun
    65 6 Reuter-AAP. I SAIGON, Fri. The N referee at a soccer v match between two Vietnamese teams here recently sent off the field a goal-keeper from whose pocket a pistol fell when he jumped to clear a ball. I The protesting goal- keeper said he carried S
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    SITPHOL WINS
    78 6 MELBOURNE. Fn. Siamese bantamweight Chai Sitphol. beat Alf Webster. Of \ustralia. on a technical knock-out in the seventh round of their scheduled 12-round fight here tonight. Sitphol was far too experienced for Webster, and the Stadium Limited have announced he will be given a return bout with the
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    Two Best For K.L. Today
    1052 7 RACE CARD gELOW is the Card for today's Races at Kuala Lumpur, the First Day of the Selangor Turf Club's June Meeting. The Big Sweep will be drawn on Race 8, and the Double Totes on Races 4 5 and 7 &8. RACE 0NE—2.30 P.M.
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    158 7 A. eji ♦•am*" "SPOT" Karr 1-1 NklTM t aftftlWM IUIAM 2.SV iMM lUcillUm (Ittiifalr H4*jr Imi.HI Jtdl i.'iU It».- I VIMEU HVAH MlW~LEOlS UH »1 l'UINT (,H iltjw Lf|i YMIOl Hon Ll&gt;0 Itmr I'rmi *&gt;fcynia*&lt;«&lt;r «un.ru R M r h I.mjomho i.oui» LMUIMHU Vm itthOltniCfc Liferrt) Mat Ontkl*w l.lkrrt), Flax
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    Good Going If Weather Slavs Fine
    358 7  -  By Albert Spencer The Man with 2,000 Winners Kuala Lumpur, Today. THERE was heavy rain here last evening and the going at the course this morning was "dead." If the weather holds, the track should be good but not fast. My two best each-way
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    JOHORE LEAD 3-1 IN FOONG SEONG CUP
    346 7 MUAR, Fri. JOHORE led by three games to one in the Foong Seong Cup encounter against Negri Sembilan at the end of the first day's play at Paradise Park tonight. The game was greatly affected by the threatening weather and strong breeze and
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    INDONESIANS FORCE DRAW
    95 7 A hard working Indonesian League XI forced R.A.F. Changi to a one all draw in a S.A.F.A. Senior division match at Jalan B:sar Stadium yesterday. The airmen played a better game and had it not been for the strong Indonesian defence they would have won by a
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      613 7 NOTICES NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that CHEW ENG CHUAN of No. 40, Craig Road, Singapore 2, is applying to the Governor for naturalisation, and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to the
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      233 7 ENGAGEMENTS The engagement is announced between Mr. Patrick Teo Jin Wan, third son of the late Mr. Teo Bah Tan and Madam Tan Ah Eng, to Miss Jessie Gan Poh Neo, second daughter cf Mr. and Mrs. Gan Eng Thiam, Singapore. The engagement is also announced between Mr. George Tan
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    MAN SHOT AT SHUTTLE GAME
    167 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. BANDITS yesterday shot and killed a Chinese while he was playing badminton at the Chinese school in the Bukit Koman village in the Raub area of Pahang. Air strikes were carried out in the Taiping area of Perak, the Kuala Langat irea
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    $2,000 BAIL IN TRUST CASE
    51 8 Tan Kok Teng. 42, c'aimed trial in the Fourth Police Court yesterday to a charge of breach of trust of $1,200 entrusted to him by one Mr. Peter Robinson on Dec. 7 last year. Bail of 52.000 was offered. The case was postponed to June
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    FREE SHOW
    28 8 Ten R.A.F. Officers an&lt;f 40 cadets of the Air TrainingCorps were guests of the Capitol Theatre at last night's screening of the nim "Twelve O'Clock High."
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    TRUMAN HAS MASTER PLAN TO LICK $ GAP
    200 8 TRUMAN HAS MASTER PLAN TO LICK GAP Reuter. COLOMBIA, Missouri, Friday. PRESIDENT Truman declared today that his Government is now preparing a master p*an to complete the defeat of the world dollar crisis after the end of Marshall aid in 1952 and thus strengthen free nations against Communist encroachment. He
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    Huge Crowds Cheer Nehru, Soekarno
    110 8 U.P. JAKARTA, Fri.—Hundreds of thousands of cheering Indonesians lined the road all the way from Bogor to Bandoeng as visiting Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, accompanied by Indonesian President Dr. Soekarno. started his tour of Java. The presidential party set out early this morning from
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    LONDON SHARES
    167 8 Reuter. LONDON. Fri.—British Government s'o&lt;;k* w-&gt;tured «Ogt al the business in the London Stock Exchange today. Once again there was substantial tradine in &lt;»hort-dated and three-and-a-half per cent issues and prices moved higher to close quarter per cent up. Other sections were under th'i restraining influence of the
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    MALACCA TEACHERS FOR P.T. COURSE
    92 8 MALACCA. Fri.— The following Chinese School teachers have been selected to attend a week's physical training course at the Government Chinese Free School, Kuala Lumpur. Au Loon (Pay Fong High School). Low Kok Chee (Ping Ming School&gt; Chew Ching Sing 'Yoke Mm School). Yap Chee
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    GAOL RIOT: 5 DIE
    33 8 A.P. BOMBAY. Fri.—Five convicts were killed and 14 wounded last night when warders opened fire on rioting convicts at Patiala central jail. The rioting continued throughout the night.— A.P.
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    REDS CLOSE SWATOW IN PREPARATION FOR BIG PUSH
    210 8 T. V. Soong Gets The Sack U .P. A.P Reuter. HUINUHUJNU, iriuay. THE Chinese Communists have closed the port of Swatow, one of the principal jumpine-off points in an anticipated invasion of Formosa, causing speculation that assault attempts on the last Nationalist
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    TROUSERLESS MAN ESCAPES
    79 8 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY. Fri.—Quarry in a madcap night chase acros the roof of Sydney's Tivoli Theatre was a trouserless man, with grease-blackened face, clutching a woman's petticoat. The man. a £A 1 note and some small change, trousers and petticoat disappeared. The thief was found trouserless in a
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    PEPPER BOOM IS NEARING ITS END
    170 8 U.P. LONDON, Fri.—With a break in the pepper market in Bombay today, trade circles in London believe that the pepper boom is nearing its end and prices will drift down. Indonesia, which had provided 50.000 tons of pepper to the world markets annually before
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    Chinese Schools Petition Govt.
    230 8 Tribune Staff Reporter THE Chinese Schools Conference has petitioned Government to soft-pedal its policy regarding Chinese schools. An official of the Conference told the Tribune that the petitions were in the form of two letters sumitted to Mr. R. W. Watson-Hyatt, Deputy Director of Education (Chinese)
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    Regiment Troops Its Colours
    88 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Thousands of people from Taiplng and the surrounding villages wa,tch*d an impressive "Trooping the Colour' by the 2na Battalion of the Maiay Regiment yesterday. This is the first occasion when a battalion of the Malay Regiment has ever trooped its colours. The smart
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    R.A.F. AWARDS
    43 8 Squadron Leader P. N. Smith has been awarded the Air Force Cross on the King's Birthday for his services on the staff of the British Services Mission to Burma. Sgt. T. Harris. *****2, who also served on the Mission, received B.E.M.
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    ESTATES FOR SALE
    37 8 U.P. HONGKONG. Fri. —About 10 rubber plantations and tin mines in Malaya are offered for sale in Hongkong. One rubber estate in British North Borneo was prominently advertised in the local papers for sale.—U.P.
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    Ruler Bids Farewell To Adviser
    86 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Ruler of Selangor gave I a farewell dinner in honour I of the British Adviser. Mr. J. F. Curtis, who is going on transfer to Trenerganu. The Ruler said that Mr. Curtis has worked for the welfare of the State and
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    WEEK-END DIARY GENERAL
    201 8 METHODIST YOUTH 1 'ELLOW SHIP: Devotional Mtcting at 6.30 p.m. at 1 Short Strt-et. Speaker Mr. Wee Teow Kee. SPORE BATTALION BOY'S BRIGADE: Football League Eighth Co.. vs Ninth Coy.. Furrer Cai X at 4.00 p.m. Y.W.C A.: Mandarin asses 10.00 a.m. Raffles Quay. MaicLarin Classes Cambridge
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    CHURCH SERVICES
    418 8 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH: (5, Penang Road): Sabbat 11 School 3.30 p.m. pleaching service at 5 p.m. TOMORROW ST. GEORGE'S GARRISONCHURCH. Tanglin: Holy C. mmunion ar. l Sermon—9..Vo a.m.; Sunday Communion 7.15 a.m. Morning Prayer m Church Hut 9.45 a.m.; Evening Prayer—6.3o p.m. METHODIST: Wesley Church 10 a.m.:
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    CINEMA
    233 8 CATHAY: "Tranoed" at 11 1.45, 4.15, 6.45, 9.30 p.m. Midnight ton'ght: "My Friend lrma". ALHAMBKA: "Sapiitangan" at 4.15, 6.45, 9.30 p.m. Midnight tonight: "Perils of Nyoka'. Sunday Matinee at 11 a.m. "Centennical Pummer." PAVILION: "The Interrupted Joprney" with Valeri Hobnon, Richard Todd. Christ'ne Ncrden and Tom Walls at 2,
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    SPORT
    158 8 TODAY SOCCER: Singapore V Negri (Malaya Cup) at Jalan Besar. Jnr. A 2: RAF Tengah v S pore Chinese Eng. Assn. ct Oylang. CRICKET: Cvi ;aits v Services at S.C.C. 11 a.m.; S.C.A. XI v Combined Schools at S.R.C. 2 p.m.; RAF Changi v HMS Terror at Terror ground;
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    BOLT YOUR DOORS
    176 8 CECrHK you, T etlnn S night waa r„ advice given to Ml S porean.s by Mr. D. X BroS" huist Assistant D of Police, C.1.D.. He was referring increase in the number housebreaking ea n Colony. Mr. Bioadhu.st alri v housebreaker have on i natnv occasions walked
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    Woman Had Condenser Under Bed
    127 8 The prosecutor told the Third Idagisti that preventive offl found under th&lt; bed ol Ah Wah. a ndddle-afed Hokkien woman, a con ser and a pipe. Burkci ground a hundr away was a jar bf I rice. The officers also t iffjed a aO-gallon still
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    IN MEMORIAM
    35 8 The Bishop ol f&lt; will dedicate the War Men orial Boards or Old Ran sians who lost their in the last two wars, al M p.m. on Thursday I In Raffles Institution ha;!.
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