Malaya Tribune, 28 May 1948

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  • 63 1 The Malaya Tribune !U THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales than any Afternoon Paper In Malaya Printed Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur, ipoh Penanq 1 Telearams: "Tribune Spore." Telephone: 8811 (9 line*). JIGHT PAGES SINGAPO li; FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS The MALAYA TRIBUNE London Agents Messrs. Colin Turner
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  • 171 1 SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS CAPETOWN, May 27—Gen. Smuts, South African Prime Minister since 1939, lost the seat he had held for 24 years as it seemed clear tonight that neither his United Party nor the Nationalist opposition wculd gain a clear majority in the South
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  • 27 1 Reuter. Mai 27 ,he intent tonight muniqut threat p| nil concession j rjnii a States e on the United to Arab report sta I Reuter.
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  • 300 1 Reuter. I I SAI EM, May 27 —The biggest field enol Palestine war is raging on Jerusalem's iutskirts around Tel Aviv highway, a spokesman said on Wednesday night. H) said th it the battles for md southern Jerusaalted temporarily at the Arab.-- concentrate 1 troops
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  • 84 1 Reuter. a SUCCESS. May. 27.— der C idogan, chief I B delegate, told the SeCour* tonight that 21 seconded to the n forces would b? I thdrawn from service wlttlj Alexander also an toHinnd that the British sub- j rran lordan would bd In the
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  • 52 1 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, May 27New instructions from London understood to contain propo. sals for a fresh approach to the P3lestine. problem were received here tonight by the British delegation to the United Nations. It was expected that Sii Alexander Cadogan. chief British delegate, would make an important declaration
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  • 51 1 Reuter. AMMAN. May 27. King Abdu'lah of Transjordan. Com-mander-in-chief of the Arab armies in Palestine, drove into Jerusalem today to visit his son. Emir Naif who is serving with the Arab Legion It was the King's nrs t visit to Jerusalem since the Arab Legion entered Palestine.
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  • 54 1 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS. May 27Mr. Trygve Lie. United Nations Secretary General, is understood to have told Mr. Ernest Bevin through an emissary that the whole future of the United Nations depended on a solution of the Palestine problem and to have expressed concern at some of the implications
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  • 51 1 U.P. JACKSON, Mississippi. May 27. The police said today that the Rev. Charles Jones, preacher, had the right idea but the j wrong method. They arrested him 1 when he tried to cash a ivorthless cheque }<>r $250. wanted money to improve the Church," Jones explained.
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  • 29 1 U.P. BERLIN. May 27. U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Mr. Uedell Smith, arrived here by plane from Paris today, ami expects to leave for Moscowtomorrow. —U.P.
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  • 253 1 Reuter. LONDON, May 27.—ihe House of Commons last night rejected an Opposition request for a <rliamentarv enquiry '.nto the circumstances in which the names of members of Parliament wtTe alleges to have been added without their consent to a *elegram of goodwill to Pieiro Nenni. Leader
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  • 75 1 Reuter. LONDON. May 27. Britain's iet engine pioneer Air Commo- I dore Frank Whittle, will re- ceive an award of £100.000 from the British Government for "his achievements in the science of aeronautics." it was officially announced here today. The award was made in spite jof
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  • 73 1 U.P. New York. May 27. Rubber futures closed ten lower to ten higher with sales of 50 contracts. Spot was 22 4 Some buying attributed to the steadiless in primary markets. Closing prices: June 22.30 lominal, July 21.85 bid. August »1.75 nominal. September 21.65 bid, October 21.60
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  • 73 1 IPOH Today. Heavy rain fell yesterday evening and made the tracks slightly soft this morning. Candidates with engagements for tomorrow's races i were on the inner grass with a few spurs by individual horses on the sand track which was open for fast work. The
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  • 80 1 Reuter. BATAVIA. May 27. Seven men were jailed today for attempting to overthrow President Sukarno's Republican Government and kidnapping, his adviser, the'former Premier Sutan Sjahrir, in July 1946. the Indonesian Republican news I agency. Antara. reported today from Jogjakarta. Gen. Sudarsono and- the Tiotskyist Dr. Mohamed
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  • 220 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. May 27.—Britain is using a "prohibitive" export tux on Malayan tin to "hamstring" operations of America's major Govern. m°nt-run tin smelters. John Croston. a member if th« Natior al Securities Resources Board, told *h» Smate Armed Ser.ires sub-committee here today. He «iaimed
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  • 157 1 Reuter. Nicosia. Cyprus. May 28. Royal Air Force ground staff j working on the 20 American transport planes which landed •it Nicosia airport on Tuesday had instructions to finish refuelling by last night. The American party, estimated at 200. some of whom were armed, wer housed
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  • 301 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. May 27. The Senate Appropriations Com-1 mittec today voted to request; Gen Douglas Mac Arthur to re tm to the United States to testify on the Far Eastern situ atlon. The decision fohows a petttion to Congress
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  • 93 1 Reuter. Wash in i) ton. May 27. Mr. I Paul Griffith, a former commander of the American I Leqion. declared here today that "100.000 trained and i seasoned quislings of the Communist front" threaten the United States. He told a Senate commit- I tee considering a
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  • 89 1 Reuters. PARIS. May. 27. Gen. Nguyen Van Xuan becomes Defence Minister as well as Premier of the provisional central Vietnamese Government, according to a »st of ministries which ,has been submitted to the ex-Emperor of Annam. Bao Dai. Reporting this, from Saigon the French news agency said today
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  • 73 1 Two street hold-ups occurred in Singapore last night, involving the loss of $184 In cash and property. One hold-up took place in Kitchener Road where a Chinese pedestrian was stopped and robbed by two compatriots. In the second Incident, a Chinese couple were held up in Clemenceau
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  • 67 1 A Police spokesman told the i Tribune this morning that no requests have been made by factory proprietors for Police guards in view of the Union's decision to call a one-day strike tomorrow. The spokesman added that Police were still on guard at the Tai Thong
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  • 291 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, May 27 —The United States today rejectea as unfounded a series of Soviet protests alleging interference by American planes \v-»h commeicial navigation over waters adjoining Japan. "In no single one of the mon than 50 cases to which objection has been made by
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  • 39 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, May 27. The State Department disclosed today it sent a second proj test to Lebanon concerning the I 41 U.S. citizens removed from the vessel Marine Carp and interned by the Lebanese au- thorities. —U.P.
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  • 147 1 Reuter. WASHINGTpN. May 27. Presioent Truman has denied that he was making any commitment for fa loan to Israel and haft indicated that such a loan would not be forthcoming until the new state of Israel was "fully 'n existence." Appaiently correcting statements made by Dr. Chaim
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  • 37 1 Shortly after 8 a.m. today, a Chinese pedestrian was knocked down by a taxi driven by a Chinese in Geylang Road, near the police station. The victim was removed to hospital with severe injuries.
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  • 135 1 Reuter. LONDON May 27. British exports of cars and commercial vehicles in April beat the month lv target rate set for the end of the year and topped the United States litres for March by 500, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders announced
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  • 55 1 Reuter. KINGSTON. Jamaica. May 27.—J D Goddard. of Barbados, will captain the We: i Indian cricke t team t 0 tour India. Pakistan and Ceylon later this year. Mr. D. P. Lacy of Jamaica, secretary of the Wesf Indies Cricket Board ol Control, will travel
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    • 24 1 Today's Weather Isolated afternoon thunderstorms, fair tonight but dawn showers tomorrow. Temperatures in past 24 hours: Max. 89 degrees. Mm. 74 degrees. Rainfall: 0.8".
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  • 401 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) SINGAPORE'S 52 RUBBER FACTORIES WILL COME TO A COMPLETE STANDSTILL AT DAWN TOMORROW WHEN SOME 8,000 RUBBER WORKERS WILL LAUNCH A ONE-DAY STRIKE AS A PROTEST AGAINST THE "UNJUSTIFIED" ARREST AND CONVICTION OF 88 WORKERS OF THE TAI THONG RUBBER
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  • 115 2 A Chinese labourer engaged in transferring bags ot cement from the deck of a snip to the engine room miss ed his balance and fell into the airwell down to the engine room—a drop of about 50 feet. He died about two hours later. The tragedy
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  • 72 2 A statement issued by the Criminal Investigation Department last evening reveals the five persons against whom orders of banishment were issued sailed from the Colony n May 26. ihe five person are classiaed as. one being a leading nember of a notorious and •.angerous illegal society,
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  • 101 2 A special guest house for overseas guests of the Britisn Government bai oeen opened in Park Suect, London. U ;s a block of flats used during the war as offices for the Colonial Office. The new premises will be capable of holding more than 50 guests at
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  • 184 2 Two-hundred-and-ninety-six isans, houses °f th e two -med-typc and 27 shops c fo be conrtructed shortly the Singapore Improve, nt Trust site between Bales>i Road and Lorong Lima i ate. i'his is a r*art of the SlnImprovement Trust lai'ig campaign, mooted to se the
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  • 350 2 GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES CONSIDER THE NEW COST OF LIVING ALLOWANCES RECOMMENDED BY THE JOINT COMMITTEE SATISFACTORY BI T THERE STILL APPEARS TO BE A SNAG. M G. A. Tessensohn, President of the General Clerical Services Union, said: "The clerical services aie quite hi.ppy with these terms, especiall;' as
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  • 146 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The Singapore Traction Company has replied to the demands put forward by the S.T. C. Employees Union recently for a general increase in the' wages of all rolling-stock workers. Mr. A. A. Ewing, the General Manager of the S.T.C., said that
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  • 195 2 Two witnesses in the court martial trial of Capt. Christopher Macltae, of the Seaforth Highlander- yesterday were recalled for re-examina-tion of their previ us cvi- '"nee. Capt. Macßae i beinf court martialkd >n nine charges, seven for allegedly making false entrie. in the roi'.s of :,mi.ark
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  • 72 2 Tan Bee Boon wa s fined ?250 or two months rigorous imprisonment at the second Police Court yesterday for illegally offering a bribe t)f three dollars to a court Interpreter. According to the evidence. Bee Boon went into the Eighth Police Court and was fc have
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  • 36 2 Reuter-AAP. SHANGHAI. May 27. Re ports that Madame Chiang Kai-shek is to visit Slam ar? untrue, it is learned from authoritative sources. Madame Chiang Kai-shek is now visiting Shanghai. ReuterAAP.
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    • 85 2 ONE FRESH CASE j OF POLIO I One fresh case of poliomyelitis was reported yesterday, the victim being a Chinese child. rh«* total number of cases Is now H4. 2 HURT IN BRAWL (Tribune Staff Reporter) Two Chinese were removed to hospital with minor injuries following a brawl with servicemen
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    • 173 2 ROXY OPENING TO-DAY 3 SHOWS: 3, b.15 Si 9.15 P.M. SONG AND DANCE /N FIESTA TIME! i "Carnival in Costa Rica" Starring Dick Haymes, Vera-Ellen Cesar Romero, Celeste Holm IN TECHNICOLOR Tomorrow at Midnite The War of the Roses! "THE BLACK ARROW" Set Get Her Man I Last Four Shorn
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    • 441 2 M YOUR RADIO TODAY RI UV VFTWOKiT from K.L.; 10 p.m. Swing Club; j Mandarin, Amoy Cantonese; viaVav 10 30 The Three Musketeers 1.15 Opening Announcement VIAJLA 1 ENGLISH Jr, 12 -.n p m La st■ Prog. Summary in Tamd with PROGRAMMES News Summary Close Down, j Signature Tune; 1.17
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  • 153 3 i v :itten<tant. Ng x ho tried to extort two ,ney from a Chinese Havetoeh Road and oi inont'V from a t pearl's Hill Road j WSJ sentenced r .v the Fourth Cri- District Judge to 17 ir oufl imprison- ea ch charge. the MJ n
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  • 153 3 (Tribune St<i}f Reporter) me Singapore Harbour Board Auxiliary Police held ~n Wednesday night. t he Singapore Volunteer Hall to celebrate the first anniversary ol the formation oi tho foroa, 'Hi,- hall v-as gaUy decorat- ,> i A-hH« coloured lights, added to the gaiety of the evening.
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  • 362 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) THE CORRECT PROCEDURE OF OBTAINING SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST HOUSES IS TO MAKE A DIRECT WRITTEN OR PERSONAL APPLICATION, THE FORMER BEING PREFERABLE, TO THE 5.1. T., SINCE THE TRUST DOES NOT EMPLOY AGENTS, MR. H. C. TINSLEY, ESTATES OFFICER OF THE 5.1.
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  • 72 3 An expectant Chinese aether, aged 19 years, received fatal injuries when she was accidentally knocked down by a car while mounting the steps of the Cheang Hong Lim New Market m Covent Gardens, off Havelock Road, at about nine o'clock lasi morning. The woman died in hospital shortly
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  • 467 3 A middle-aged widow was kicked down from a window hei teen aged son escaped and jumped down an air well tc mon the police to theii which was being robbed, the disappearance of approximately $6,000 in cash and I ry, Those were the •ions made
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  • 251 3 2 GET 6 YEARS BIRCH A gang of six young Chinese, three of them carrying a pistol each, held up the proprietor of a Chinese liquor shop at Rowell Road on the afternoon of June 28 last and j made off with $120 in cash and I eight bottles of
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  • 37 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Telok Anson will receive another shipment of rice today, when the M.S. Talue. belonging to the East Asiatic company in Singapore, arrives with a cargo of 1,080 tons of rice from Bangkok.
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  • 112 3 Ipoh, May 27.—From Cameron Highlands comes the news of a case of poliomyelitis. The victim is an European child said to have come from Singapore to the Highlands awaiting the reopening of her school. The victim is now a patient in the Batu Galah Hospital, where she
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  • 90 3 (From Our Own Reporter). Malacca, May 21.- Asahan residents experienced a mild scare on Wednesday when a fully grown tiger made its appearance towards dusk in the Reservoir area. Houses and shops immediately put up their shutters and a party of Chinese and Malays, with shot
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  • 54 3 Miss Isobel Baillie was generous last night when she responded to loud encores at her song recital and sang again three times. The large audience was most appreciative of hey singing. Mr. Adrian Holland, who accompanied Miss Baillie. contributed a piano solo m the first
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  • 78 3 Mr. Cheng Chia-hua. Chinese Consul General at Singapore, has been appointed Consul of the Chinese Consulate to be opened shortly in Malacca. Mr. Cheng, who recently arrived from Apia. Samoa Is lands, is a graduate of Yenching University. Peipint? He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1930 and
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  • 54 3 U.P. WASHINGTON. May 27. The United States Ai r Force announced today that the Commanding General of the United States Far Bast Air Forces has extended apoligies to the United Kingdom Poli tical Representative in Japan for the incident in which a British transport plane was intercepted by
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  • 271 3 The Little Theatre Players re to present "They came to i City", by J. B. Priestley, at he Little Theatre. Armenian street, on June 4, 5, 7, 8 and "I. at £.30 p.m. Many difficulties have had o be overcome in order that the theatre-going public of
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  • 224 3 AN APPLICATION that a divorce petition filed by Mrs. Martin Butcher in the Singapore High Court should not be heard here as the respondent, Squadron Leader Dudley Martin Butcher feared that it would affect the honour of the R.A.F.", was refused by the Chief Justice,
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  • 908 4 The peace of Johore is threatened; intimidation and gangsters are reducing trie people to a state of fear even worse than they experienced during the occupation; the planters are coming to the I end of their tether and may lose control of their estates, thus causing embarrassment
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  • 868 4 SIR. —As a means to an end in obtaining the necessary funds to combat the T.B. menace, and in getting the wherewithal for the provision of many social service measures, it is the considered opinion of many of my friends
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  • 736 4 Sir, —Amidst us there are ocial and economic problems .vhich demand serious attention, t find a good number of the •lite of Singapore struggling to ;olve these questions by pallia.ive treatment. Tuberculosis md other deficiency diseases xre undoubtedly claiming a big ;01l of lives. Public
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  • 631 4 Sir, Rev. Preston L. Peach's letter on the subject of •state lotteries as a means of raising funds to be used in counteracting the scourge of T.B. is, indeed, a revelation. I marvel at his great powers of exaggeration as I read his prophecy of
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  • 1018 5  -  (By CHARLES LYNCH Reuters Correspondent) Reuter. OjTAWa —Britain s Vampire and Meteor jet fighters are capable of unusually high performance under Arctic conditions. That is the conclusion reached by British and Canadian technicians following the most comprehensive cold weather tests ever carried out
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  • 148 5 Ma] 27. A fine of $2. r >. ,i th s' imprisonment xpi nsive price to kiss, but this 17 .car-old married wives, Karim bin parit had to pay convicted on WedMr. J. G. Adams, in Court, Ipoh, on a tulting one Rokiah H ,t'!- wth intention
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  • 30 5 U.P. untitled May 27. The I tastal steamer S.S. Chang of the Chung Hwa Steamship Company with era °n beard was in- today while iiti from lsingtao to ptl U.P
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  • 280 5 Sex Education In U.S. 'Too Little Too Late' Reuter. WASHINGTON, May 24. v ition in American j usumlly "too bttle and j according to Dr. Esther McGinnis, director of the; llerrill-Patoer School in Detroit. Michigan. I She told tho National Con--00 Family Life here ndary schools should courses to help
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  • 364 5 Reuter. BEDFORD. May 28.—Britain's "City of Scientists" near here is expanding rapidly. A huge research station now being built to centralise all British experiments in supersonic flight will cost £20.000.000 sterling and will ultimately have a staff of 5.000 of whom about 1.400 will be scientists.
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  • 102 5 Reuter. GRIMSBY, Lincolnshire. —A Grimsby fisherman, annoyed with Doctor Edith Summerskill. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, because she said that fish were not properly handled on trawlers, has invited her to go fishing with him on a winter trip. "May I suggest', he wrote to
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  • 277 5 U.P. LYNN, Mass.—Mrs. Sarah Wilson said recently on her 70th wedding anniversary that all a woman needs for a happy marriage is an eager heart, a sense of humour and a man. Mrs. Wilson, who is 91, said: "Women are to blame for
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  • 44 5 A smiling group at the wedding of Capt. Frank Moore and Miss Jean Audrey untitled at St. Andrew's Cathedral on Wednesday afternoon. Major H. W. Btomme §moB the bride away. Mrs. J. M. Isherwood was matron-of-honour, while Capt. R. Broadbent uas bestman. (Tribune Photograph).
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  • 999 5 Mr. D. H. Christie, headmaster of the Sultan Abdul Hamid College, Alor Star, has taken over the duties of secretary of the Kedah Club. Mr. J. S. Cunnyngham Brown, Secretary to the British Adviser, Johore, has left for home on leave and has been succeeded by Mr.
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  • 52 5 Reuter. r MOSCOW. May 27. Ihe condition of crops through out Russia is "very satisfactory." the newspaper. Trud. said today. The Moscow news said that in areas east of the Urals, which before the war produced a quarter of Russia' total grain yield, the crops were "good to
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  • 40 5 Dr. W. Clyde, food expert at the Commissioner General's offic<\ who was In Washington tc attend the allocations meeting;; of th<- rice committer, i~ back today. A meeting of thr liaison officers will take place on June 1 and 2.
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  • 87 5 Reuter. CANTON.—Motor-car owners here will have to pay a special tax as from June. This special levy will be collected quarterly by the Municipal Government, it is reported in the local press. The only types of vehicles which will be exempted from paying this tax
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  • 62 5 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY. Fred Taylor, old- age pensioner, of Perth, Western Australia, won £3.000 in a recent lottery. The Social Services Department has ruled that he will lose his pension until he has reduced the prize to £650. Fred has been told that he must reduce the money
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  • 249 6 (Tribune Staff Reporter) More than 2,500 people, stranded in strange lands by postwar conditions, have passed through Bushey Park, the Social Welfare Department's "transit home" in Singapore, after arriving here. Previously these had been screened by the Preparatory Commission International Refugee Organisation in Hongkong.
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  • 166 6 Reuter. LONDON, May 27. Probable runners with jockeys so far engaged for the Derby, running over one and-a-half miles at Epsom on Saturday, June 5, are: My Babu, C. Smirke; Overhead, no jockey; Djeddah, E. C. Elliott; Tory, T. Burn; Prince Hardy, C. Rowley; Hope Street,
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  • 75 6 Reuter. TOKYO, May 27: Tokyo today buzzed with rumours unconfirmed ond unconfirmable—tliat Emperor Hirohito was planning to abdicate on Aug. 15. The abdication, it is said, would be timed to coincide uith the execution of Tojo and other war leaders with Aug. 15. selected as the anniversary
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  • 82 6 The following players will represent the Useful Badminton Party in a friendly match with the Fraser Neave Sports Club at the latter's indoor court. Trafalgar Street, on Saturday Goh Tian Chye, Teo Boon Eng. Chan Mun Kit, Ong Kirn Seng and Abdul Malik, S. R. Crocker, Woon Chek
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  • 28 6 A meeting of the Indian Association athletic section will be held on Sunday at the I.A. premises No. 6 Race Course Lane at 10 a.m. sharp.
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  • 78 6 The following will represent the Shell SC. in a friendly soccer match against the Sim e Darby Sport Club on Friday, 28th May at the C. V.M.A. ground at 5.15 p.m. Wong Leong Yuen, Chong Pitt Chong. John Loh. J. M D. D. Evans, John Hon, Phua
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  • 54 6 'Ihe following will represent the V.M.C.A. at cricket agains; the S.R.C. on Saturday at 2 p.m. on the Padang: V. N Pillay, L. Holloway, D. Hoop er, V. Ramalingam, R. Deliken, L Goonasegram, R. Lyne. S. Retnam, P. Swyny, S. K. Sundram, A. Hasson, I. B. Suratta, P.
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    • 460 6 TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ORDINANCE No. 22 of 1939 CUSTODIAN OF PROPERTY PROCLAMATION No. 14 of 1945 Notice is hereby given that any person or persons having a claim to the property described in the Schedule hereto are requested to forward such claim to the Custodian of Property, Supreme Court
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    • 450 6 NOTICE NOTICE :s hereby given that I, the undersigned HONG ENG HEE, of No. 243, Victoria Street, Singapore, have applied to the Board of Licensing Justices, Singapore, for a First Class Public House Beer Licence for the sale by retail of any sort of beer for consumption on the ground
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    • 480 6 NEDERLAND LINE I ROYAL DUTCH MAIL Notice to Consignees. s.s. "ROEPAT." due Singapore about Ist. June, 1948, from Continental Ports en route for Batavia Discharging cargo alongside S.H.B. wharves Last claim day 8 days after the vessel has completed the discharge. Consignees are requested to apply for Delivery Orders to:—j
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    • 108 6 Consij;, S :W>l>l> for DHixen Or^'l XEDEKUMnJf ROYAL IH TC j^i Agents: H <( ml £J -MM 4 kj:»inson \> JH HOLLAND K\s t 1 sailed I Penan- 24thBolt Bwettenhaia Aden Port sSS/gL I Marseil! For cargo and partX M NEDEHIAXD Um| ROYAL DITCH Mv Agents: Holl md But 41.
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  • 21 7 un FARELF will hold athletic meeting Qroand, Tang at i 30 p.m. to v. ill be open to
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  • 170 7 On yesterday's game ID THOMSON made the most of that early op- h* skied the f><ill from the yoalmouth. mtffhi have von, and thereby considerably i chances oj finishing the season ai the URMEN wert superior on the run of the pooi marhsmanihip utid over-eaytrn< m
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  • 386 7 Giles Should Solve Army Navy Problem untitled SOCCER.... SPECTATOR SIGNALS, whose luck has at last turned for the better, have a .player mho should solve one r »1 l'«,n <>r the ArmyYu selectors. XI i Giles; position, riles played a magnificent game on Wed- 1 bi sd Unst the C.A.
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  • 453 7 Reuter. MANCHESTER, May 27.—Lancashire, after dismissing the Australians for 204 runs, require only 96 runs with sever wickets in hand, to obtain a first innings lead. At close, they had lost thite wickets for 108. A 19-year-old left-arm spin bowler on the
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  • 186 7 Larry Duncan is to make a final appearance at the Happy World Covered Stadium tomoricw betore returning to America. Larrv has got a job on a hp bound for England. He will sign off at London and take a nother boat for New York. The coloured
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  • 101 7 The Australian Broad- j casting Commission hopes j durina the forthcoming Test Cricket series to dcs- I eribe the matches from the first hall to the last, direct from the English grounds. A.B.C. spokesmen will be Alan Mac(fill rai) (once captain OJ New South Wales), Rfc Alston
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  • 140 7 AUSTRALIA IST INNINGS Barnes c Cranston b Hilton 31 Morris c E. H. BSdrich I» Pollanl 22 Bradman b Hilton 11 lan Johnson lbw I» Hilton 5 Loxton b Roberta 39 Harvey b Roberts 36 Hammenee b Pollanl 2 Saggers not out 22 Lindwall c Lawton b Hilton 0
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  • 312 7 Singapore Police 2 Chinese Athletics. At the P.T.S. Police ground yesterday the Singapore polict. drew with the Chinese Athle tics 2-all in a Division II game. Eailv in the game the Police took the lead through Cheani, cntre-half, who scorec with a drive which
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  • 1120 7 MALAYS '(M.F.A.) 2; R.A.F. (CHANGI) L THE MALAYS PROVIDED ONE OF THE BIGGEST UPSETS OF THE SEASON AT JALAN BESAR STADIUM YESTERDAY, BEATING RA F. (CHANGI) BY THE ODD GOAL IN THREE. Hussein gave a delightful j display in the Malay van- guard, scoring both goals
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  • 122 7 Rough play marreo wnat would have been an interesting joccer game when Pulau Bukom Sports Club clashed with Kranji W/T in a Second Division fixture at the Geylang Stadium yesterday. Pulau Bukom won by four to one. Towards the closing stages of the game,
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  • 60 7 'Ihe undermentioned will represent the State Express XI against the Indonesians' 2nd XI in a friendly gamr of soccer today at 5.15 p.m. Os llcNair ground: T. T. Goh, Jim. my C. K. Lee, Basn. David Cheng. M. Leon-. Mahmood. A. C. Ngan, S. T. Leong. Par;.m
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  • 114 7 In a return friendly badminton match at the St. Patrick School Hall last Sunday. ihe Lanoma Badminton Party defeated the Carefree Badminton Party by i games to 3. Tne following are the results (Lanon.a B.P. mentioned first) Singles Milton Nools lost to Lim Ong Huat (10-15; 1-15); Conrad
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  • 255 7 The flask lor the, Junior. Veteran Ladles' Singles and Mixed Doubles Championships of the Malays Badminton Tournament, still in progress at the Clerical and Administiutive Workers' Union Hall, wil' be run-off this week end. Garaea wtH begin as usual at 7 p.m. Meanwhile the Opefl Singles and
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  • 267 8 Reuter. LONDON Mav 27. The aftermath of yesterday's rain was aopareni when a start was made in the Count* cricket championship matches today. Northamptonshire fared d'S- astrou«lv on the damp Chp«?ter- j field pitch against Derby-mire's medjum paeor CvrP G>»dwm j and were all cut
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  • 125 8 I.- tang. May 27. Full military honours were accorded berr to Airernltsman Eric Ralph Hollands of the RAF Tengah, Singapore, at the funerai which took place from the General Hospital for interment at the Western Road Christian Cemetery, Penang, at 11 o'clock yes- j tcrd
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  • 59 8 Al)r Star. May 27. The problem of supplying artificial limbs to a number of applicants in Kedah. was discussed at a meeting of the State Welfare Committee at the Sungei Patani Club recently. The meeting ruled that only wooden legs will be supplied tc applicants as
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  • 178 8 (From Our Own Reporter) Malacca, May 21. A geneial free for all developed in the Malacca Soccer League Games when tho Malacca Indians clashed with the United Rangers on the Reclamation ground at Banda Hilir yesterday. During the free exchange of fisticuff, spectators invaded the field
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  • 202 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON, May 27. —U.S. Secretary of Slate, George Marshall, has sent to the Senate r reign Relations Committee a list of Russian actions which are said to have prevented a just being attained. Th" list is reported authoritative'y to cover about three dozen or more
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  • 162 8 About two hundred labourers I of the three Penang Oil Mills which have closed down have submitted a three-point request j to the owners of the mills, for a maintenance allowance of $1 a i day for each employee for the period the mills are closed. The letter
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  • 212 8 Reuter-AAP. Shanghai. May 27.—Posters denouncing America have appeared on the walls of the campus of St. John's University. At the same time an exhibition of pictures —rerortedly designed to underscore Chinese anger at United States aid to Japan —was continued today. The exhibition, which contains mainly
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  • 51 8 Reuter. TOKIO. May 27.— Rellabl? sources today denied current I rumours that Gen. Mac Arthur would return to the I United soon. They I said he recently reiterated his previous statement that he I would not leave Japan until hi s job was done —and that was not
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  • 114 8 A Malay. Ahmad bin Mapnool. was sentenced to six months' r.i. in the Second Police Court yesterday for theft of $5 from a European soldier while impersonating a woman. According to the evidence, the accused, dressed up as a woman, was strolling along Connaught Drive when he
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  • 123 8 Results of last night's ties in the Chinese V.M.C.A. table tennis Championships are as follows: Schoolboys Open Championship Lav Buone: Beck beat Chiang Thmg Cho 3-0; Tho Choon Song beat Kao Keng Hock 3-0. MEN'S OPEN SINGLES (League System): Kwan Sung Ho beat Tho Choong Fong
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  • 79 8 The Committee of the Rex Children's Club have procured two excellent films for their week-end programme. The film for tomorrow will be "California" in technicolour with Ray Milland. while on Sunday the programme will be "The Flying Tigers", starring John Wayne in a stirring story of
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  • 325 8 Reuter-AAP. Batavia, May 27. A SovietIndonesian agreement, reported to have been negotiated in Prague, took Republican circles by surprise today. Both Republican and Dutch officials said they were without official knowledge of the agreement to an exchange of consulate officials" announced by the Soviet Tass
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  • 147 8 Reuter. BERLIN. May 27. -British Aimy authorities here today announced tne arrest ot a man who. dressed hi a Russian sergeant's uniform and armed uHth a loaded tommygun, yesterday entered a house in the British sec*or of Berlin to "invite a German who lived there to accompany him
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  • 89 8 Reuter. LONDON. May 27.—Prime Minister Clement Attlee told the Foreign Press Association on their 60th anniversary tonight: "The creation of real understanding depends upon a wide dissemination among the ordinary citizens, in all countries, of knowledge of the nature and way of life of
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  • 177 8 IPOH —AS RUMOURED IN THIS COLUMN, during the Kuala Lumpur meeting Mr. H. C. Lim of Singapore has dis posed of his six horses namely Game Law. Blackpool. Fleeting Memory. Silver Lining. Kaiserine and Port Star. The new owners are "Beckhampton Stables." They still remain under
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  • 53 8 U.P. lOKIO. May 27. SCAP officials in Tokio said today that S.Mntoism in Japan is not yet dead, A Scap survey into Japanese religious or ganisations said. "It is too j early to claim that the JapaMM people are fully emanclDated from the influence 'I! the former
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  • 57 8 Reuter. BERLIN. May 27. The Soviet-licensed newspaper. Berliner Zeitung. tDday su%gesr3d the early withdrawal Df ;11 occupation troops from Germany as "the best and only solution to present-d»y German problems." This measure is imperative because some occupation powers are today hampering us in our efforts to establish
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  • 434 8 Reuter. PARIS. rVay 27.— ihe first major upset in the French lawn tennis championships occurred tori* iy when the Unitod States Wightman Cup player. Miss Doris Hart, seeded number one for the women's stogies was beaten in the semi-nnals by anoti tr American. Miss
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  • 81 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON. May 27. Alexander S. Panyushkin, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, will return to Moscow shortly on a visit for instructions, he announced today. He told reporters: "I am going to Moscow to get new instructions for the continuation of negotiations
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  • 380 8 Reuter. LONDON, May 7. A suggestion, quite unofficial, has been made that Don Bradman should be invited to play in the Gentlemen versus Players match due for Lords from j July 14 to 16. This is the W.C. 1 Grace Centenary Match and there
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  • 678 8 Below are the handicaps for tomorrow's races, the first day lof the Perak Turf Club Sum- mer meeting; together with records of the last three runs of the horses: Horses Class 1, 8 Furs. 0 3 1 King Midas 9.07 0 4 4 Liberty Man 9.02
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  • 201 8 (Tribune Staff R-putU, Singaporeans were rot r. j mystified by the appearance i| I fruit stalls of pears displays! for sale resembling the Japol 1 ese-grown fruits which flood the local market in j war days. fiuit have recent I come in from Korea via
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  • 128 8 The Mayflower Ba Party beat the United FW Badminton Party by five e«* to two at the Clerical H»M on Tuesday night The main feature ol counter was the skilful &m by the many promising Ja* players. All the games packed with thrills The
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  • 15 8 BEIRUT. May untitled hanese Parliament l elected by a he president. Khuri to anotlr Ij*)
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