Malaya Tribune, 2 October 1948

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    61 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales than any Afternoon Paper In Malaya Printing Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh A Penang Telegrams: "Tribune 8'por:" Telep*"*ne: 5811 (9 lines) EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1948 PRICE fEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE London Agents Messrs. Colin Turner Ltd.,
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    GUNS BY AIR CASE
    212 1 Exclusive Tribune Pictures Pictured above are -fohn Roberts and Mavis Ida Sneil who are held in Tanjong P. nang by the Dutch authorities in connection with the recent big arms seizure from a Catalina off Air aba Island. 200 miles N.E. of sirgapore. Thirty-nine ya«'-#M -John
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    DANCE HOSTESS ROBBED
    103 1 ACh dance hostess was ;of cash and property vi.") by four armed in Race Course Road a* Bight .tg seated in a tnsha r with an amah and her Dths "id baby, when the two of whom were armed As, stopped her. I i c;rpcd in a
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    R.A. BAND TO PLAY IN S'PORE
    83 1 IV band of the Royal Artilith, embarked at today in the troopship i six months' tour m the Kai East. Thirty-foui bandsmen wit' in Ceylon. SingaP*n tad Hongkong and call at Mia* in th< Middle East on Mi my home. tosSf. the H)0 service
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    AMERICAN untitled
    26 1 -yUiln™ from yesterday BaucTin. i. tl Un!on I'-m tm r Q c uay ar un„ J1 m lo 5.30 p.m. through Friday. On 5
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    Three Parties Tell Jap Cabinet To Go
    250 1 Reuter. TOKIO. Friday. -Japan's coalition cabinet faced a demand for the resignation from three political parties today over allegations that ministers were involved in the Showa Denko black market deal. Mr. Takeo Kurusu, director of the Japanese Economic Sta- bilisation Board -a high
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    Red Fight Still On Says Sukarno
    146 1 U.P. batavia. Fri. President Sukarno warned his Indonesian Republic tonight that the critical battle against communist insurgents has not ended despite the fall of Madiun. His 20 minute speech over Radio Jogjakarta was supported by reports that the fleeing insurgents have taken armaments and
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    PREFABS FOR AUSTRALIA
    48 1 Reuter. SYDNEY, Fri.—The South Jiclered 90 prefabricated corrugated iro n huts from England to speed up settlement cf ex-servicemen on irrigated land in the Murray Rivt r area. Igloo-shaped, they are ot the Ni.ssen type, and were used by th e RAF during the war.—Reuter.
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    DIET SESSION
    42 1 Reuter. TOKIO. Friday. Tru steering committee of the Lowe r House today approved a Government request for ;i convocation of an extraoibinary session of the Diet on Oct. 11. Chief Cabinet Secretary Gizo Tomabcchi mar»t the request for the Government.—Reuter.
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    300 FLAG GIRLS OUT
    30 1 More than 300 'Flag' girls out from early morning selling flags' for the Queen Street Boys' Club. They were mostly helpers from Chinese and English schools.
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    Patel Warns 'We Can Defend Ourselves'
    196 1 U.P. New Delhi. Friday. Home Minister Sardar Patel war nine; the Security Council to cease interfering with India, in Kashmir and Hyderabad. declared that the new Dominion is strong enough to defend herself against anyone in the world". j Patel delivered his belligerent speech
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    Villagers Fired On
    54 1 Reuter. DACCA. East Bengal. Fri. Nine persons died and 11 were injured when police fired on villagers near Chittagong, the East Bengal Government announced today. The villagers were trying to dig a canal through lands belonging to other villagers and attacked the police when ordered to disperse,
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    Aga Khan Operated
    53 1 U.P. PARIS. Friday. The Vga Khan underwent an operation at the American Hospital here last night, a member of his c..- tourage disclosed today. The spokesman said his condition was very satis!actory. The Aga Khan arrived in Paris two days ago from the Riveha. He is 71
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    COLONY FACES BIG DEFICIT: INCOME TAX WON'T FILL GAP
    339 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) RESPITE income tax, tne Colony administration is bound to ;<now a aeu Rcit of several millio i dollars by ihe end of the current year The Colony, which entered the nseal year with a buc.gettea surplus ol moie
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    INQUISITIVE COWS DELAY KING'S MAIL
    88 1 U.P. i London. Friday. The King s mail was late today. It ran into Helicopter trouble, complicated by a herd of inquisitive cattle Th- helicopter, which dally delivers His Majesty's mail to Balmoral Caste from Londcn. made a forced landing near the village of Ballater.
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    BLACK-MARKETEER HELD AT AIRPORT
    56 1 Reuter. TOKIO. Friday Curtiss A Busn. a former SCAP employee, was arrested yesterday for alleged large-scale black marketecring. Gen. Mac Arthur's Headquarters announc- j cd. Bush was picked up at Tokio airport en route from the United States to Bangkok. Bush is not believed to be
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    The Twain May Meet
    207 1 Reuter. San Francisco. Friday. A law prohibiting mar riages he tween white people and those of i Negro. Mongolian, or Malayan hlood has been thrown out by the California State Sup rente Jourt. I The court declared that since the right to marry Is the ight
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    ALIBHAI SOLD
    88 1 Reuter. NEW YORK. Friday. The British-bred stallion Alibhai. -old by the Aga Khan to Hollywood film magnate Louis B. Mayer in 1939 for $16,320. has now been sold to a breeding syndicate for .he record United States price of $500,000 (£125,--0001. Alibhai. by Hyperion out of Teresina. is
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    Italian Boxer Dies
    92 1 ROME, Friday.—Funeral ser vices will be held tomorrow for Italian boxer Gino Verdinei'.i 33 who died here on Wednesday night from a head injury suf- j fercd in a recent bout at Lisbon against the European welterweight champion Vilkmain. Verdinclli had been out of action since his
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    TODAY'S TIPS
    104 1  -  (By Allan Lewis THE going for today's race, the first day of the Penang Turf Club AuHimn Meeting, promises to he very good. The hest bets "»re HARIMAN, EGYPTIAN QUEEN and LOBA U LADY. The best win sind olace are VICTORY, CRAIG\IOUNT, and EASTERN GOLD. Race :1 CRAIGMOUNT
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    PICCARD'S PLAN
    43 1 BRUSSELS. Fri. Professor Augusts Piccard. 63-year-old Swiss-bom scientist who plans to mike a two and a half mile dive in a bathyscaphe to study the bed of the Gulf of Guinea, irrived at Dakar today from Antwerp, it was learned here.
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    Yaks Buzz British Transport
    64 1 U.P. BERLIN. Friday.- Two Yak fighter planes today "buzzed" a British chartered plane flying the air corridor to Berlin. Michael Davison, pilot of the heavily-loaded Biistol Wayfarer, said that one Yak made a "quarter attack" from about 50 yards or less, from the nose of the
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    STOP PRESS
    56 1 PLANTER SHOT Ml JAR, Today.—A Chinese rubber planter, owner of Chahak Estate, kidnapped by handits, end taken to Mount Ophir where he was bayonet ted and shot. BATU PAH AT. Three, groups of terrorist, numher- lag about SO men, attacked tbe Yong Peng Estate. They made four attacks,
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    Fraud Against Father, Son Alleged
    211 2 Alleging that there had been fraud and collusion on the part of Indian bankrupt and h s son the Official Assignee made an application in the Singapore Hieh Court yesterday to have the tenancy of the bankrupts business premises, now m the name of his
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    A-BOMB THREAT
    91 2 Reuter PARIS. Mr. Vyshinsky. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, told UNO today of the "illusion" of the United States that they alone possessed the secret oi" the atom bomb. "The United States is pursuing a dictatorial policy They want to keep their stock piles of atomic bombs under the
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    International Control Of Atom Debated
    163 2 Reuter. PARIS, Friday. The Political Committee of the I nited Nations General \ssemblv resumed its debate today on the International control of atomic energy, having yesterday adjourned consideration of the Canadian resolution which called on all nations to fulfil their responsibilities by accepting effective control.
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    Five hours after being reacued from the se4* a few miles out of Singapore, five Bueis sur- ; vlvors of a sev n-ton sailing vessel landed ;n Sing iporr yesterday. Picture above shows four of the men, Hassan, Sesek, Mohamed and Balak with Immigration Officer Osman bin Mohamed btinging up in the rear, desendlng the gangway of the freighter Bennlbaiach at the Singapore Wharevs. The Bugis were picked up by the Benalbanaeh.
    72 2 Five hours after being reacued from the se 4 a few miles out of Singapore, five Bueis sur- vlvors of a sev n-ton sailing vessel landed n Sing iporr yesterday. Picture above shows four of the men, Hassan, Sesek, Mohamed and Balak with Immigration Officer Osman bin Mohamed btinging up
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    FOOD INSPECTORS AT WAR WITH RETAILERS
    204 2 Customers deceived by meat substitution rOOI) Control inspectors are once again on the warr path for racketeers. The offenders this time are shady retailers of mutton in Singapore's food markets." Retailers now deceive customers by selling imported mutton as local meat, which is uncontrolled.
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    12 PAKISTAN PCs DIE IN CLASH
    80 2 Reuter. New Delhi. Fii. Twelve Pakistan policemen were killed or injured and one Indian kilU I and three Injured in a bordetclash between Indian and Pakistan Police near the village of Thati. about 25 miles w« <t of Amiitsar. in the Punjab. The Indian
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    C-G BACK FROM BRUNEI VISIT
    44 2 The Commissioner-General Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald returned yesterday from a four-day visit to Brunei. He will broadcast from all stations of Radio Malaya on Wednesday at 9.45 p.m. His talk will be broadcast on both Red and Blue Networks.
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    WOMAN ROBBED
    34 2 A Hok.kien woman was held lup by four Cninese, two armed r;ith revolvers, and i robbed of two gold rings and j a gold bangiev in Rac e Course Road last nignt.
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    Aussies Test Tadpole Wing
    192 2 Reuter-AAP. Sydney, Fri. An experimer- tal tadpole wing, which may revolutionise aircraft, if theories j about it are proven. «01 be tested at Laverton. Victoria soon by the Royal Australian Air Force. The wing was built for tne I Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Experiments
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    Australia Must Foster Growth Of Population
    292 2 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Friday. -Sit Clive Baillieu, Australian and British industrialist, who is on a visit to Australia has urged the immediate adoption of a "fiscal and economic" policy designed to encourage to the limit the growth of Australia's own population. 1 Sir Clive said
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    21 2 BERLIN. Friday. Berlin's East-West "War of Nerves took a new turn today when the American-controlled r adii> RIAS here was jammed.
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    On Your Radio Today
    147 2 BLUE NETWORK MALAY ENGLISH PROGRAMMES 1.00 p.m. Lunch-time music by The Radio Orchestra, 1.30 j News 1.45 Dance music by Victor Sylvester, 2.00 Light j Music. 2.30 Swing Time. 2.4b j Cafe Continental. 3.30 Songs of the Range. 4.00 Theatre Orchestra. 4.30 Tea Dance. 5.10 Sports
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    RED NETWORK CHINESE & INDIAN PROGRAMMES
    164 2 RED NETWORK CHINESE INDIAN PROGRAMMES 12.00 p.m. Signature Tune. Opening Announcement Programme Summary in Mandarin, 12.03 Mandarin elections. 12.30 Teochew request programme, j 1.00 News in Mandarin, Amoy Cantonese, 1.15 Opening Announcement Prog. Summary in Tamil with Signature Tune, 1.17 Tamil songs, 1.20 News in Tamil. 1.30 Tamil songs, 1.45
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    ONE MAN CRUSADE
    35 2 Reuter. LONDON. Fri.—Mr. Scth RtttiakriiShna Dalmia. Indian muKi-miliionaire industrialist and newspaper owner, will lly from Britain to the United States o n Mondoy on a one-man crusade for world federal govtrnment. Reuter.
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    TRANSMITTER'S STORY 'UNTRUE'
    116 2 Reuter. HONGKONG. Fri. Government sources and Communist officials both deny a report abroad that Hongkong Communists have a two-way-radio communication with north Shensi Headquarters. One Government source said the Communists have a radio receiving licence but no transmitting licence. He added •'lf they are transmitting are doing
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    MAGISTRATE FINES "GOOD FRIEND"
    73 3 tierc so often 1 beginning to bo n ds," ihe Mu-o-hlers. told ,l •in V»o An Neo. in I,• Cot t yesteiimposed r. line ot foi -ii. tailing tw« rs in a c pbjee on August •it**! ;i K. t whicn i (*hincse wayang wa i
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    BEER DEALER FINED $585
    151 3 Two Revtmn- Officers were served with a bottl e of stout at 131. Selegie Road on the night of May 13. They paid with two marked dollar notes. The framed licence oi the dealer was under a counter. Ng Koh Sic.v. the proprietor of the public
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    LADY GIMSON TO MAKE APPEAL
    58 3 Lady Gimson will broadcast an appeal on behalf of tlv fund tor handicapped children on Sunday, tomorrow at 8.12 p.m. Her talk will be heard in the Singapoie Blue Network) programme. Appeals will be made in th> Malay programme at 7.45 p.m.. tbe Chinese at
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    "Red Tape" Blamed For Planters' Vulnerability
    783 3 Don't dope the public With rubbish -Mr. Rogers LUMPUR, Fri.—lt is easier for a terrorist to get a gun than for a law abiding man. And Government's red tape is to blame. Visiting Agent Mr. P. A. Rogers said this at yesterday's meeting of
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    POLICE HOLD SUSPECTS
    162 3 A Chinese visited a gold- 1 smith shop at North Bridge Road and asked for a gold I bangle worth about $350 at 10.20 a.m. yesterday, j When the bangle was j handed to him. h e took out som c cartridges wrapped up i n a
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    RECEIVING ORDER MADE
    88 3 A receiving ordt r was made 0\ Mr. Justice Jobling in the Singapore High Court yesterday against a contractor ana scrap merchant s. Mohamed Yousif, whose Uablities amounted to $55,000. Mohamed Vbusll said thai number of people owed him money and be estimated that his assets would
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    EVEREST MEN FOUND NEW APPROACH, COSMIC RAYS
    279 3 NEW DELHI, Fri.—A party of officers from the Central Water-Power Irrigation and Navigation Commission led by Dr. Eanerjee returned recently after a four-month expedition into the little known and hitherto unpenetrated regions of Eastern Nepal, South of Mount Everest, covering a distance of
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    CANADIAN LOAN DISCUSSED
    97 3 Reuter. Washington. Fvi. Canadian Finance Minister DouglaAbbott yesterday met Paul G Hoffman, Marshall Plan administrator, for talks belitwed to be diiectly connected with the projected unfreezing of the badanee of Britain's Canadian lo?n Since the beginning of lb.weeh a Canadian delegation neaded by the Deputy Trad Mlntlter,
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    Not Neglect, Says Ex-Jap Consul
    76 3 Reuter. TOKIO. Friday. Setsttjra Beppu, former Japanese Consul-General at Dublin, pleaded not guilty today to a charge that his failure to i:;rd over property and iccumenti of the consulate after the war to the British Government was harmful tc the purposes of the occupation. Eeppj
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    JAP REDS DEMAND
    43 3 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO. 9rL —The Communist Party today demanded the en oloe resignation of the Asrida Cabinet. The den; .nd was made when Kyuchi Tokuda Sanzo Nosaka, Karol-u lloso kawa and Katsuji Itano. Communist Diet members, met As hida today.—Reuter AP.
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      687 3 Tribune CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY NATIONAL REGISTRATION PHOTOS: 2 for 50 Cents: National Registration begins in Singapore 18 October. Foe convenience of office staffs, family circles, factory labourers, everyone else, National Registration photos can be taken in offices, homes or any appointed place, at any time of day or night (provided
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    GANDHIJI
    196 4 TODAY Indians throughout the world will honour the birthday of Mahatma, He would have been eighty if he had lived. Wher. Gandhi died ironi an assassin's bullet India lost her greatest man It was ai s hard that guided her to achieve independence. It was his hand that for
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    REMINDER NO. 3
    185 4 JHE pig farmers arc getting the push. Under new by-laws no pig may oe reared In the Municipal Area of Singapore. April r,O is the deadline after which no little porker may claim to a city flicker. This date has been chosen (and wisely) so that there
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    SIGNPOST TO THE FUTURE
    1823 4 An American Looks At Malaya No. 3 ANDREW ROTH American journalist specialising in Far Eastern affairs, ends his series of 3 articles on Malaya. He sees, as the foundation stone of the uture, a new education policy under which youth will grow up free of racial
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      9 4 i MILL LIGHT lAG ED WOK MALAYA' (i»cox>o**rt» in
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    WHAT IS ATOMIC ENERGY?
    740 5 SATURDAY SCIENCE SECTION \nw\meni One iv IVu putsch, '»i the m > Monitor' '.j |h C Li.ids oi cn--1 li.it mar has J discovered or LoH use of is ivally n i; mergy. We a food, -.nd- oome trans fornui Uons occur that p u<? supplied
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    FOR THE LAYMAN
    153 5 ■It is hardly to l>< expected thai mankind could team m a 1/air or two, or in a generation, to live m an atomic era even if nil the agencies of public information and education all acquitted themselves perfectly," sags the Special Committee of the American Society
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    New Machines & Gadgets
    396 5 New Machines Gadgets TABLE lamp, whose SUppO! ting stand glows in the dark, is easy to find even In an tinlighted room. The upright column of the stand is made of 11 oyster-like plastic shells, one above the other, each treated with a phosphorescent pigment that causes the glow. s
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    BLAME ELECTRICITY FOR IRON RUST
    186 5 (By Science Service) The rusting <>} mm wdw electrochemical currents Ukt those from an ordinary viectric battery. That has been the theory and now it's proved by the British tin mist Dr. U. Evans, who spoke before tm Eleventh international Congress of Pure unit Applied
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    TESTS SHOW YOUR EAR IS QUICKER THAN EYE
    183 5 '/>•*/ Science Barnict 1 YOUR car is much more sensitive to Interruption* i» sound than your eye is to flicker i» hyht. Dr. Geenrgt A Miller ol Harvard VHirers,'. I /"is discovered. Movie* on aenerally shown at about so to frames each
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    Tadpole Wing May Revolutionise Aircraft
    185 5 Reuter AAP SYDNEY, 7ri.—An experimental tadpole a lug, which may revolutionise aircraft, will be est ed at Laverton (Victoria) soon by tin R3yaJ Australian Air Force. The wing was built for th? Co.uicil foi Scientific and Industrial Research. Experiments on the wing arc part of
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    Opera Music At Memorial Service
    96 5 Reuter. f&NDON, Friday. Music mi Kit Arthur Hullivan mm I'tHi/i'l and •mi'/ nt a iiirnimi- a' wervtee for Ifr. Kupcri D'Oyly Vttrtr, in a<i of the O*Ogig Cnrit Opera Company, a h-> ,hr<i i-u September it. Theatre celebrities fitted Hi" l-'ttlr King's (.'impel cktme t<>
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    Decond Life For A Frog
    84 5 ReuterAAP. SYDNEY t Friday. Mr. W T. Blackmore, 0/ Toowong, ',>)/< wtluMd, was working m Ins i/aidfii when he saw a ft. green snake crossing a iavn. Hr went mto action with a hoe, and chopped the snake in half. He noticed man ment in
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    He Wants Plan For More Aussies
    190 5 Reuter. SYDNEY, Fri. Sir Clive Bailltet', Austra- lian and British industrialist, who is on a visit to Australia ha.s urged the irrmedkiU> adoption of a "fiscal and economic" policy designed to encourage the growth of Australia.- own population. Sir Clive said that when he
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    JEWS ATTACK IN VAIN
    36 5 Reuter. DAMASCUS. Friday.- Jewish forces, supported by}armoured cars an<j artillery, tried unsuccessfully to attack the Arab Liberation Army's position at Mi'iscljabal on the Lebanes e frontier today. It was reported here. Rent"-.
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    TB CLINIC: MONDAY'S CEREMONY
    74 5 rriK Foundation Btoac for ti. Rotary Clob Tubcrcukwt ;iinlc will be laid by the Gov•inor ot Singapore. Sir Frank in Gimson. at 0.30 p.m. cm ilonday, Oct. 4. The Clinic is being erected -m .he premises of the Tan TocU I 3eng Hospital. Singapore, from 'unds
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    Woodcock Challenged By Mills
    312 6 Woodcock Cha llenged By Mills 'A FIGHT THE PUBLIC ARE ENTITLED TO SEE' Reuter. LONDON, Friday. MOW that the British heavyweight champion Bruce N Woodcock has returned to the ring being laid to groom him as a contender for lUB world title, a challenge has been issued to W» Ted
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    CANADIAN WINS EMPIRE TITLE
    196 6 U.P. MANCHESTER, Oct. 1— Canada's Negro Ugk-/ wei°ht champion Arthur King won the ii.itish 1 Empire lightweight title tonight when Bihy Thompson, British and European iightvveighr, I champion, retired at the end oi the seventh of a I scheduled fifteen round bout at the Belle Vue
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    Cerdan Takes Bad Beating
    69 6 U.P. PARIS, Fri. World Middleweight champion Marcel Cerdan took a beating todayfrom a crowd that greeted him on arrival home in Paris. i With his hand brushed and bleeding and face smeared with lipstick from grips and kisses from thousands of men and women fans. After
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    BOXER DIES AFTER FIGHT
    71 6 U.P. CHICAGO, Vriday—Kid Dinamlta, 22-yeur old Dominican boxer, died from in juries suffered la a prize fight, and the Blue Ribbon I Coroner's Jury has been or dered to investigate the case. Bobby Dlnamita's last opponent was held in technical custody by the police pending an
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    South African May Fight In Australia
    92 6 SYDNEY. F, Hn W European amateui <• G. Hunter, of Soutl who won L h. |j, weight boxing adjudge! heal Olympic Gam come to Austral four lights. I Ed-ar Tannn. i lia nacr er the Australian < Hyiwjg said this on hi> i-tujn v
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      562 6 Church Services St. Andrew's Cathedral: 7 munion at 11.15 a.m. and 5.30 a.m. Holy Communion. 8 a.m. p.m. Evensong. Choral Eucharist 10.30 a.m. St. Paul's Church. Upper Matins followed by Holy Com-j Serangoon 8 a.m. Holy Com- I munion, and 5.30 p.m. EvenTRADING WITH THL song. ENEMY ORDINANCE 0 st
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    Weight-Lifting Competition
    144 7 post-war inter-flub weight-lit as held at the Queen Street boys" ay last between the Evergreen Party una the Queen Street Boys' W'ei!- 1 l' |U tition was very and the Queen won the cup Mi. Lam Joon \> v president of the Chij Weight-lifting i narrow mar- to
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    RECS' GAIN 4-NIL WIN
    240 7 Playing their first hockey match of the season, a Singapore Cricket Club "A" team went down to a Singapore Recreation Club eleven by four goals to nil on the padang yesterday. The standard of play was not very high which indicated that the players were still
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    LITTLE MEN STOLE SHOW LAST NIGHT
    536 7 GOLDEN BOY MEDICALLY UNFIT, SUBSTITUTE K.O D. MOK Kai Khoon and Nai Tom Chai stole tho show iTI at promoter T. B. Lim's professional boxing card at the Happy World Stadium last night. For eight rounds these two bantamweight I slugged it out toe-to-toe.
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    TIGERS WATER POLO
    102 7 The following swimmers of the Tiger Swiniming Ciub will represent their Club in friendly water polo g:.mes against the Singapore Swimming Club tomorrow at the 3. S C. pool: "A" Team: Tan Wee En?, Ng Joo Hong. Chin Hena Fung. Ang leek Bee. Gan Cheng Ann. Loh
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    TODAY'S SPORT
    93 7 HOCKEY AC S. Old j Boys' Assn. v. C.S.C.. C.S.C. 1 i 0 ...id, o p.m. FRIENDLY SOCCER: Tr M.S Norfolk v. Bounavtsta i S.C., Gillman Barracks, 5 p.m. ..uvjUiiK S.C.C. v. H.M.S. Terror and H.M.S. London Combined, Padang, 5 p.m.; i\ee Soon Garrison v. Spore Engr. Regt..
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    29 7 Mr. Hon Sui Sen. C. A. S. has been appointed to act as Collector ot Land Revenuf Singapore. and Mr. Lim Keng Hong has been appointed a Deputy Collector.
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    TOM BROWN TRANSFERRED
    57 7 Reuter. I ONDON. Oct. 1.-Tom Brown. IIJ Millwal's inside-left and! cr.ptan, was transferred to I Charlton Athletic today dis- j Placing another player signed from Millwall —Ben Fenton. Brown's transfer cost Charl ton a record fee—ln the re- ?i'>n of £10.0J0. Their previous highest wa- £8.000 to
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    I. A. TENNIS
    73 7 The following will represent the Indian Association in a Tennis match against R- A. P. Seletar tomorrow, at 3.30 p.m. on the R. A. F. i Tennis Courts at Stleiar. Players are requested to meet at Nc. 50 Market Street at 3.00 p.m. sharp.: P. Parthasarathy (Captain),
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    ISMAIL, POH LIM GAME POSTPONED
    68 7 The men's open singles semi-final tie between on o Poh Lim <F N) and [small bin Marjan (Useful) which j was to be played today has. i b( en postponed. The mixed doubles quarterfinal tie between Ong Poh Lim and Miss Helen Heng <F N
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    TODAY'S CARD
    866 7 The IUoQWMg are ihe u.igiits anil non-acceptor* for today's Penang races, the first day of the Penang T irf Club's Autumn Meeting: RACE ONE 20 0 The Raven 7.1.1 Horses Class 4. Div. 3 6. Fuis. 2 0 0 Content 7.10 00 0 Norfekt 8.13 0 0 1
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    309 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS New Verse (Tankard) was sent to the barrier in company with Hariman (Harper) ami Jorank (Dawson). The three jumped away well, but New Verse gave considerable trouble beforehand and is unlikely to be passed. I doubt if he will start the first day. Hariman
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    American Rich To Be 'Soaked' In Shanghai
    206 8 U.P. SHANGHAI. Friday. American firms in Shanghai, and the American Chamber of Conintefee, woic notified by Mayor K. C. Wu today that they are expected to join the Chinese in contributing to the "soak the rich" levy. The special levy was assessed against
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    'WE HAVE ATOM BOMB, TOO' HINTSVISHINSKY
    321 8 World Control Rejected U.P. PAKIS, Friday.—Shouting and crinrsoii-faeed. Russia's deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky threatened 'UNO delegates to-day thai H was a "dangerous Elusion" to imngiii! that America was the sole possessor of the atom Imtnh. He did not say what other wwntrica owned
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    Indian Army Orders Trucks
    75 8 LONDON, Friday The fndiau Army baa ordered 2. r »o RrltiMh trucks, valued at about j £250,000, it was disclosed here to fay at the opening of Britain's first commercial motor exhibition since 1937. It is one of the largest sineje c« mmercial vehicle orders placed
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    GENT PROBE
    144 8 Reuter. LONDON. Friday. The inquiry into the air crash in which Sir Edward Gent. High Commissioner for Malaya, was killed ended today. Mr. A. R. Paterson, representing the Swedish airline, said the authorities ought to have known before the accident occurred that 500 feet vertical separation of planes
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    Film Strike In Japan Averted
    109 8 TOKIO. Friday. The management of the Toho Moj tion Picture Company and it's workers resumed negotiation yesterday. If the Toho management had fatted to reopen negotiations with the workers by today the Ail Japan Motion Picture and Theatrical Workers Union, had threatened to call a
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    Chiang Confers With Commanders
    170 8 Reuter. NANKING, Fri —Chiang Kai-shek thU at eraoon held a conference with toprankinj commanders in Peiping on the ovcrail military siUtation in the five adjacent northern provinces oi Liaoning, Jehol. Chahar. Suiyuin, and Hopei, reports said tonight. The conference was attemi<(l by Gen. Fu Tso-yi, C-in-C
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    ARABS BACK ABDULLAH
    115 8 Reuter. AMMAN. Fri. Two thousand Arab refugees from Palestine at a mass-meeting bore today gave full powers to King Abdullah of Transjordan to "speak on P destine.- behalf" endoring "every step the King takes for the solution of the I Palestine problem." They protested against the formation
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    TIGER BALM KING TO BOYCOTT CHINA
    122 8 U.P. Hong Kong, Fri. Aw Boon Haw. Singapore's rigei Calm King, today threatened to he't ill sales of Tiger Balm ir. China unless the government loosens its rigid price controls. The statement followed the arrest of Tiger managers both in Shanghai and Taiwan or
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    "Poison Seeping From Hy'bad"
    327 8 Reuter. London. Friday. The Indian case on Hyderabad w is fully presented to the British ptibite today with the publication of a bulletin "Hyderabad thr Indian Point of View." The bulletin said "The rules of the Indian states realised that it was better foi both the
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    'The King No Symbol' Says Eire Premier
    233 8 Reuter. DUBLIN, Friday.- Premier John Costello, back from a tour of Canada and the United States, stated today that legislation to abolish the 1936 External Relations Act would be introduced in the Dail (Parliament) when it re-assembles next month. Costello first announced the
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    Best Wishes From The Brig.
    56 8 Brignmkmr Rogers, deputising for Major General MeDermot Dunlop. meet* tm Engineers before thf soccer vuuch between the Royal Enyintn.s ami tht Combk Joseph and St. Anthony school boys. The match was the first to lx plflfd St Joseph Institution's new yround at Bras Basah Road.
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    Dr. Dadoo May Go
    137 8 PRETORIA. Frid a y. Dr. Yusul Dadoo. President of the Transvaal Indian Congress, was granted a temporary interdict in the Supreme Court today restraining the Minister of the Interior or officials from preventing his departure from the Union. The heanng of the main application was adjourned
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    BOILAERT LEAVE
    27 8 Reuter. SAKJON, Thuiri Bollacrt. French misj-ioner In Indorelinquiah his oflfce zal Saigon to return to W Oct. 4, it was wcll-infoj med ■ource day. Renter.
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    HOCKEY DRAW
    33 8 Royal Naval Police to a scorers rira\ team freni HMS N «foa 1 Naval Base ground (to*! At the n« s "i of thefj Mrs. Gpslon fft*J prison to the lea-*
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