Malaya Tribune, 22 December 1947

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  • 59 1 The Malaya Tribune Ljr THE PEOPLE FO/? THE PEOPLE Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper In Malaya Voir, PrintWj .!> in s:_i°Ml»ore fcuala Lifrnpur. Ipoh Pcna.l3. 'Phone 5811 (Three Lines) kiir '■»•>>; SINGAPORE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1947 HPRiCE TEN CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Ltitidon Agents: Messrs. Cott* Turner Lid., Talbot
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  • 238 1 Greater Use Of Air Mail Services (Tribune Staff Reporter) The Select Committee,*appointed to examine and revise where necessary the draft budget estimate? for 1948, charged most of the Government departments in Singapore with "signal-mindedness/' Ihe Committee, however, strongly recommenced that tho frequent use which the
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  • 147 1 Sir John Hay, a leader of the Malayan rubber industry and Chairman of Guthrie and Company, has, «ccotding to Information received locally, been honoured by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands who has created Sir John a Commander of the Netherlands Order of Oranje-Nassau. Sir John arrived
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  • 126 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The inquest on Air Comrnwdore Abdul Hanm of the Indonesian Air Forci, wno was killed in an air crash noar Lumut last week, will be held at Lumui early in January. Mr. Daroesman, Public Relations Officer or tne Indonesian Office, told
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  • 92 1 The May fair Musical and Dramatic Association celebrated their 13 fh anniversary yesteraay nt their premises 112 —114, Robinson Road. A tea party was held in the day and a dinner at night to mark the occasion. Tribune photograph shows a group at the main table at the tea party.
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  • 99 1 Reuter. Country, Meath. E re, H Eire Premier Eamon De nnouneed here tonight E'te general election I lace "about the Aral f ""vhruary." was called as a red 'feat of De Valera's Fail Party by the new Rein P urty in two out of three
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  • 64 1 U.P. Lend >n. Dec. &**4 British ftreisn Office spokesman welcomed president Truman's Mar ft Plan message to Congress H i remendous event in history. c President indicated that »pc of the whole plan is a fhich envisages recovery rafter than relief. That has been our hepe throughout. It
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  • 340 1 i Tribune Staff Reporter) The Straits Chinese womenare not so conservative v v have often been represent- They are interested in sports, up of the "nonyas" are m of the only badminton S ngapore. if not in Mahya, where the members are recfrom a
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  • 44 1 HAPPY COUPLE Mr. and Mrs. C. John untitled photographed outside the Tamd Methodist Church after their wedding on Saturday. The bride was formerly Miss Mary Shanta Davies. A reception xras held at the Victoria Memorial Hall after the xcedding and uas largelu attended.—(Tribune Photograph).
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  • 193 1 Reuter. Batavia. Dec 21— The Indonesian Republican information Minister today alleged that more than 300 Indonesian civilians were killed and 200 wounded W Dutch mopping-up operations between Dec. 9 and 12 at Rawagede in the Krawang district. 40 miles southeast of Batavia. capital o
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  • 77 1 ALOR STAR, Dec. 21—During a severe thunderstorm in the Jltra area of north Kedah, last week, a young Malay woman, Che Aak binti Taib, who had gone to her padi field hi, Kampong Biak, about two miles from Jitra, was struck by lightning and killed. A
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  • 95 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Singapore today experienced its brightest morning after about three weeks' of dull and rainy days. After a cold night which gave tired citizens a good night's rest, bright rays of sunshine greeted the sleepy population. It is certainly a relief to the housewives who are
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  • 36 1 U.P. MORIOKA. Dec. 21. Thirty one women telephone operators of the Government Railways Bureau here, walked out in demand for better treatment and more pay, disrupting communications from snow-bound stations in Northern Honshu.—U.P.
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  • 252 1 Reuter. ifri'SALEM Dec 21—From Safad to Haifa flown to Lvddaa series of ambushing and killings took place mdavTa time when strife torn Palestine hoped a CnViUas Iruce would give its two million inhab.tants a week or two of respite. Jews killed one
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  • 78 1 Reuter. Washington. Dec. 21—Attacking the magnitude of the fouryear $17,000,000 European aid programme submitted by President Truman to Congress. Senator Robert A. Taft, chairman of the Republican Policy Committee in the Senate, declared that it could wreck American economy. Stating that h e thought any
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  • 74 1 U.P. Bangkok, Dec. 21.—1t was learned Siam expects to send a goodwill mission to Rangoon on the occasion o! the declaration of Burma independence The mission probably will be headed by Vice-President of the Senate Phya Aphibal Rajamitri, former minister of Washington. A representative o! the Burmese Government
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  • 81 1 Reuter. SHANGHAI, Dec. 22 —Fighting has again broken out in South Shansi as the Communists ha"c begun anothir attempt to 3d** the Government stronghold of Yungcheng, which had previously unsuccessrullv besieged for over a month. The Red troops are said to be i;sln<? dynamite and crtillerv
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  • 66 1 Spokane, Washington, Dec. 21. —A long distance flight record for combat equipped superfortress was established by B-29 based at Spokane. The plane flew 4.539 miles in 22 hours 50 minutes after a take off on December 17 from Denver. It landed at the sagie field as
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  • 64 1 The Singapore Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union has an Employment Bureau, and all members, who are unemployed, are urged to register with the Union. The C.A.W.U. hag received many enquiries from firms for clerical workers, and it is in the interest of unemployed clerks to register their names.
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  • 159 2 Reuter. Shanghai, Dec. 21.—Thousands of crack Suiyuancse troops or General Fu 'i'so-yi, recently appointed North China Commanding—by plane, rail, truck and forced marches—to Manchuria frfm the neighbouring province of Jenol as the Communist threat to Mukden increased. These troops, who have yet to
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  • 167 2 Reuter. BANGKCX, Dec. 21.- r Uit first lPdiß.l] bank In Siam will start work, when Mr. Bhagwi Dayal the Indian Charge de Affaires, formally declares open a Bangkok branch of the Indian Overseas Bank on Tuesday, Dec. 23. Mr. A. Subbiah general manage r I»1 the
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  • 193 2 BUTTER WORTH. Dec. 21 Police action will bp taken against any unlicensed bread hawkers In Province WcUesJey as it was fourd that despite th? decision made last m>nth. The Health Oilicer Province Welleslev. Dr. w If Jeffrey, reported 33 unlicensed bread hawkcr.s Iri Butterwortfi This
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  • 140 2 U.P. VIENNA, Dec. 21. —Th c t/iiit"d States Army Provost Marshall's Office reported today that a self-acclaimed Russian mws correspondent beat and kicked to death an American inside a boarding house In Vienna's international zone. The r\ port oaid tho Russian named Stcphan Inrin, hit a
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    • 399 2 TfiUNICIPALITY OF SINGAPORE The following Schedule of Rates of Charges for Water will lake effect on and from the Jannary 1948 Meter Readings: Rate per 1,000 gallons For all water supplied to:— 1 Shipping and to Water Boats at Clyde Terrace Pier $2.00 2 Premises inside Municipal Limits of the
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    • 361 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Mr. and Mrs. Wee Alk a— WVBh to extend their warSS rhanks to the r^^J* •atives who so kindly thcrr wedding, and a i So those who sent valuable gifti and congratulatory messages SITUATION VffiAlSpy"" Applications aro Lnrited b» vacarcies as teachers in n\' eminent Afternoon Bchoejl* lie sic
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  • 199 3 pgUtf rcc. 21. "We JJ* C me with goodwill for J In this cosmopolitan our adoption to proiLe social, cultural, political economic relations bet£en India and Malaya which ogptn ye consider rightly as pa r. oi South India, sa d J?**? Oenesan, the leader FJ In^ia
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  • 163 3 annual tn-ncral meeting of U a B: ;1 Sia Uie following were Bce-1 carers for the year 'ni P 08 Messrs. An* Kok gJL I none Hin and Ng Kirn Zm President Mr. Lim Sin Tiang; s Messrs. Np Seng En p f t .w Huat. Lim
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  • 104 3 droin Our Own Reporter) PENANG. Dec 21—A pathej r ol how his father and were killed in Delhi taring ttie communal riots and ni be escaped to Madras to yard the "Talma'" intending I m his uncle and brother Sngapore was related by a tawaway found on
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  • 216 3 At a recent special Rcn >ra' Meeting of the Serantfoon Benevolent Society the following were elected as officebearers for the year 1947/8. Patrons: Messrs. Tan Bt-njf Poh, Scow Chcrur Thiam. Lim Senj; Poh, Foo Chin Pcn tf> Baey Gek Sen t r Koh Swe c Gim. President:
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  • 408 3 (From Our Own Reporter* SEREMBAN, Dec 21. Sergeant Arthur Eastwood, a British soldier, was committed to stand trial at the next Negri Sembilan Assizes, on Friday at the conclusion of a preliminary enquiry in which he was charged with committing criminal intimidation by
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  • 109 3 U.P. Pepin g Dec. 21.—Winter spe.ls anything but carnivals for the students of Manchuria—efpecl&L ly this winter with coal scarcer than ever before because of disrupted railroads. and closed mines, with the coldest winter in ten years already here. Six-hundred yirl students
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  • 697 4 In the House of Commons on Thursday Mr. Creech-Jones quoted figures of British ami Malayan income tax which showed the incidence of the impost in this country to be negligible by comparison. The rates are: Companies. U.K. 9s. Malaya 4s. Single person U.K. £110, Malaya £350. Married U.K. £180.
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  • 158 4 P. T. CHIA. Sir,—ln view of the numerous bus accidents happening lately, may I suggest the management of the Traction Company provides a medicine chest in each bus and in each starter's hut to render first aid to passengers in case of accidents. There may be one
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  • 787 4  -  By Goh Keng Swee S (tu a recent broadcast) Proft-ssor SHcock explained t3 you why we need a Social Survey of Singapore and what benefits we expect from this Survey I am assuming tonight that, you accept the desirability of a Survey. My question now
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  • 212 4 A MALAY-AN TAMIL. Sir. —At the moment some ol your Chinese and Malay readers are attacking each other for the 'wrong' usage of the words "Orang Cheena" and "Malai Kwai." Most of the Chinese and Maiays m this country still continue to refer to the Tamils of this
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  • 662 4  -  By N. MAMAT Convened by the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society of Singapore a meeting of local Muslims was. a s usual, held at the Al-Junied Islamic School. Victoria Street, on Saturday evening, to consider the celebra tion of the birthday of the Holy Prophet Muhammad which falls
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  • 216 4 Letters to Thr Editor SIR.—in commemoration the fact that in 1818 Sir siam' lord Raffles founded Sin-'anrr" an d made it uto a great city ann seaport a m. moriai was e rected to h• m ln the centre k Esplanade. Thls statl r 'ater removed
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  • 193 4 "JUMPER" SIR, —If one were to take i stroll to the Royal Air Force. Seletar, on e would rind one oi the most amusing sights that has- been seen for qu.te some time. More than a couple of year> have elapsed now a nd yet the Officer Commanding
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  • 40 4 Reuter. ALWAR, —India's first civilian "air nniversi y' '■> train Indian youth in ail biaw civil aviation, was opt led by Maharaja of Alwar. Tht Maharaj be-aaw w first pupi! and I -nk M IUC tional fiagbt. Beu.er.
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  • 364 5 Reuter. r sH lXGTON. Defi 21. The n for aid to Clvna drafted and is being nterosted Governments including the i before its submis- ess at the regular ting on Jan. 6. State murr?s disclosed to- t ho Nan cing Govbeen handed un00.000 in
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  • 164 5 U.P. Deo. 21- The Allied ries p:osecutor, Mr. JoKennan, on the eve of 3 indivdual testiat< d that Tojo was the .yin; ••dictator''o the •cvs to app.ar in the Tribunal. Kcnnan said, "ol the ictato s of the nations ai» d war aganst the
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  • 115 5 Reuter. MOSCOW. Dec. 21. Generalissimo Joseph Stalin was celebrating his 68th birthday today as the Soviet Union was voting in the first nationwide municipal election? since 1939. There were no public celebrations of the Soviet leader's birthday, but the elections in five Soviet Republics comprising 7,000.000 of
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  • 140 5 U.P. TOXIC, Bee. 21 —Corporal George L,vy, of Ntw Yc*k, v/ao became the first occupation soldier to embrace Buddhbm in the initial rites for priesthood, today greeted the reports from Prague that a Czecn woman had claimed him as he.- son with a smiling: "Now I
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  • 53 5 Scenes from the Christmas demonstration "When Jesus Came To Bethlehem* which teas presented by the Torchbearer Group More ment of the Salvation Army on Friday night at the Social Hall oj the Straits Chinese Methodist Church. The pageant will be re peated this evening at Wesley Church Hall. Fort Canning,
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  • 169 5 U.P. WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.— President Truman is preparing a new wage and price control r.nd rationing ollens.ve against the Republican Congr<.~s. The offensive will cont.nue light into the presidential campaign. Democrats believe they have lound the issue on which to the Republicans next year.
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  • 100 5 U.P. London, D?c. 21.—The Central Council for the care of English churches with an e ye to the fuHiie decried tod iy to keep its closely guarded Secret uE the wartim e niding place of nose church treasures taken from London during the blitz. The
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  • 96 5 U.P. Washington. Dec. 21,—ThreePower unfications of West Germany appeared nearer in the wake of Marshall's assertion that complete unity was impossible until the East-West struggle over European recovery was resolved. Diplomatic officials said while Marshall's remarks forecast American. British and French talks on the merger of their
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  • 60 5 U.P. Shanghai. Dec. 21.—The Communist North Shensi radio said the man who 11 years ago actually seized Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the lame Siam Couo war. "determined to do it again." He is Chang Chun Lin who at that time was captain in the forces
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  • 213 5 'From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 21.—Tuesday afternoon last was a redletter day for the sick chiMren Ft th° General Hospital, Kampeng Bahru, where the first of a series of Christmas parties organ sed by the Social Welfare Department, Selangor, for the benefit of
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  • 100 6 Reuter. Johannesburg. Dec 21. The White City Sporting Club of Johannesburg has cabled Bruce Woodcock, British heavyweight champion, offering him £10,000 —a record purse f° r South Africa—to fight Johnny Ralph, South African champion, for the British Empire heavyweight titlehere in April Tom Hurst, manag
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  • 68 6 Kuala Lumpur, Sunday. BĕlangOr drew with Negri SembUan in the All Blues rugger semi-final played on the padang yesterday. Both sides failed to score. The match wis played in a steady drizzle ichich made the field mud My. The drtitti). however. Has enabled Selangor to
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  • 166 6 Reuter. North Hollywood, California, Dec 21.—Joe Louis is through He will never be great again" this is what Jack Dempsey. former world heavyweight champion, said in an interview about Joe Loots, the present world title holder. Louis is going through the same thing
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  • 73 6 Reuter. New York. Dec. 21.—The U.S. Lawn Tennis Association has received four challenges to date for the 1948 Davis Cup competition. The latest is from Poland, who have again elected to play in the European zone. The other challenges received earlier are from England. Mexico and
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  • 352 6 HOME RUGBY: Final Trial Games in England Scotland Reuter. LONDON Dec 20 Apart frrom the international match at Cardiff chief iSSe-t In th? Rugby ™™f™&* m were the two final trial matches in England and Scotland. Greater thrust and purpose behind the scrums enabled England. t> gain a convincing victory
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  • 49 6 Reuter. MADRAS. Dec. 21. The lower grade staff of the Madras Government decided to call off today the strike which they began six days ago tn support of their demand for parity in pay and allowances with similar non-gazetted staff working for the Government of India. —Reuter.
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  • 227 6 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 20. .Rugby Union results ars as follows:— International trial matches. England 23, The Rest 5. Scotland 0, The Rest 8. CLUB MATCHES. Blackheath 26, Richmond 3. London Hospital 5, Chelten ham 8. London Scottish 5. Birkenhead Park 5. London Welsh 9, Rosslyn ***** 8.
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  • 713 6 (BY SHUTTLE) Wong Peng Soon (Mayflower B.P), the Malayan anil Singapore Champion, successfully defended his singles title against Ismail hin Marjan (Devonshire 8.P.), the Johore Champion, in the Mens Singles Final of the Singapore Badminton Open Championship at the ..Clerical Union Hall yesterday. Despite the
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  • 226 6 Reuter. BRADFORD, Dec. 20.—Great Britain won th against New Zealand here todaywhen they ZU r u &err" final Rugby League test match by 25 nointv tn hiid and A surprising feature of New Zerland s last game <»f n. British tour was their
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  • 117 6 U.P. NEW YORK. Dec 20 Th. United States Lawn Tenrda kl sociation has named LouZ Brough, buxom blonde national singles champion from Beverley Hills. California, as the na ion', top-ranking w len's playei of th* year. Hardest hitting women a star i n amateur circles, she
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 867 7 Reuter. LONDON^rT 1 M X yan Reuters Sports Editor). andl other feJS? I s universaJ ly known in Britain lar snort in R g r S coumHes, is the most poput0d u ay Most De °P le asked would cricketbut it n L
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  • 550 7 Reuter. LONDON, Dec, 21.—-The fortunes of the draw for the third round of the F.A. Cup has fallen heavily on the side of the bigger clubs especially In London, where all three First Division Clubs are at home to clubß in
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  • 106 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday.— The Interstate hockey match between Singapore and Perak played on the padang yesterday was abandoned after tho Interval The captains of both teams decided to call off the match because of the poor condition ol the ground which had been soft j
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  • 68 7 Playing at Paya Lebar yesterday, the SHB Auxiliary Police team beat the RAF Base HQ XI by the odd goal in seven. McGhie (2) and Clarke and D. <one each) scored for the SHB Police The final for tlie Singapore Police Cup will be played tomor
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  • 410 7 Reuter. LONDON, Dec. 21. Britain's amateur ice skaters, who day after day in the predawn of thesse dark sombre winter mornings had been preparing for the British figure skating championships, had their reward recently at Wembley, v/here before a big attendance, they went through their paces
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    • 157 7 I LOUIS IS "THROUGH" -OH IS HE Ja< k Dempsiy last night said that Joe Louis "is finished. WHAT HAS LOUIS GOT TQ SAt TO THAT? For the anstoer, buy tomorrow's Morning Tribune, In it .will be a special. EXCLUSIVE article the first of two written by Joe Louis in
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  • 309 8 Reuter. Shanghai, Dec. 21. —ChrittmS* of 1947 will b? a day of begin nings for China and its people as it will maik the inauguration of China's new democratic constitution, declared President Chiang Kai-shek in a Christmas message broadcast over Shanghai broadcasting station
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  • 91 8 U.P. New York, Dec. 21. Steve Belloise. Bronx, middleweight, outclassed Negro welterweight Tommy Bell Of Youngstown. Ohio, to win a ten-round decision at Madison Square Garden. During the bout, in which boti battlers were 00 awkward they looked like windmills. Bell was on the floor six
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  • 83 8 DOING THEIR LITTLE BIT —A section of the many ladies who helped to play Santa Claus to the children of our city at the. Children's Christmas Party held at the New World last Friday. The Party was organised by the Smaajwre Rotary Club. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
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  • 40 8 Ipoh. Dec. 21.—Five members cf the ihst Ipoh Rover CreW. in eluding a Rover Mate, left on loot lor Penang on Friday afternoon, for the Rambler's Badge. They ale expected to cover the distance by Dec. 20
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  • 61 8 The Straits Chinese Mechodist Vcuth Fellowship presented a Crn.stv.as pa2 ant -Bethlehem" at th.v Church Hall last night before a large gathering. An offering in a d of the T.tl. Funds was taken. Earlier lr» the evening, the annual Christmas service cf the Straits
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  • 187 8 Ipoh, Dec. 21.—An exhibition which is attracting large crowds is being held here in the open space facing the Celestial Cabaret. wher e a collection of freaks can be viewed for the nominal charge of ten cents person. In all there are ten exhibits, including
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  • 271 8 Butterworth. Dee. 21—Charged with stealing 20 pigs from th e premises o! a Chinese, a Malay. Bakar was fined $100 or serve two months' r.i. The case which was heard in the BUwterwcrth court before lir. A. M. I. Austin was prosecuted by Inspector Tan
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  • 48 8 Seremban, Dec. 21.—The funeral o: the late Mr. P. K. Sivaram, whose death occurred at his lesidence on Monday night took place on Tuesday last. The late Mr, Sivkram was a senior member of the Audit Department of the Malayan Rail ways.
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  • 56 8 Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 21. —A live wild bear cub which was caught in the jungles after 2 days of its birth and *'as brought up by Mr. S. V. Nada Rajah of Sungei Gapi Estate. Serendah, for the past 11 months was on Wednesday handed over to
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  • 362 8 Reuter. CARDIFF, Dec. 20. W. E. Tamplin. the captain, won the match for Wales against Australia at Cardiff Arms Park, for he placed two grand penalty goals which decided the issue by 6-0. Austialia had several chances of a similar kind, but possessed no player
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  • 169 8 Reuter. Washington, Dec. 21. —Mr. Henry Wallace, former democrat Vice-Presidt-nt of the United States, has been subjected this week to strong pressure from the extreme left wing of his supporters to found a third political party and declare immediately his intention oT
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  • 168 8 Reuter. Johannesburg. Dec. 21, Two British Imported horses, Concentration and Unity Pool, finished second and th-rd respectively in the £5.000 Summer Handicap, one of South leading races, run over one and a quarter miles at Turtt-ntein today. Ihe race was won by the 33-1 outsider
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  • 120 8 Reuter. London, Dec. 20.—1n the House o c Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps. was asked if he was aware that Loe Louis was to receive $80.000 plus expenses payable in dollars in this country for appearances in Britain and
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  • 108 8 Reuter. BOMBAY. Dea 21 y a leading India in the badm.nton V temationa km by three raatclS to one today the first lav A tag won one singles and t o doubles. IWQ India's Only win was in thp singles when D tvin.lei Mohan beat
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  • 110 8 Reuter. DUBLIN. Dec. 21. Ireland rugby union team to meet Fiance in Paris on Jan. 1 is as followsJ. A. Higgins, B. Chan! on \V n McKec. P J. Reid. B. Mullan J W. Kyle. E. Strathdee icapt&inj J Corcoran, o. M"'ien a. a
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  • 42 8 U.P. Cairo. Dec. 21.—1t was officially announced that the Egyptian middleweight champion Khedr Eltouni beat the American-held world record of 405 kilograms by lifting half a kilogram more. The previous record was held by Strawky Stanczyk of York Pensylvania.—U.P.
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  • 115 8 Reuter. San Franc.sco, Dec. 21. The California State Ath'etic Com. mission yesterday den lt a a Dosing licence to Small Montana, the Filipino former Ik ider ol the World flyweight champion ship, and refused to issue a manager's licence to Irwin Goldie o c New York.
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  • 55 8 The following have been selected t represent the S.C.R.C in then hockey fixture against the S.C.C. the Paoang tomorrow at US p.m.: Patrck Yee; Swee Law, Thmm Siew; Tat i.'hu. CLm CSiye, Kee Siansr; Kee Pow. Harry Fang. Lot Swang (Capt Seng Kirn ani Boon Unn. Reserves Ong
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