Malaya Tribune, 13 January 1949

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  • 61 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOB THE PEOPLE Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Taper in Malaya. Printed Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. Telegrams: "Tribune Spore. Telephone: 5811 (9 lines). EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13,1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice Glover, c/o Newspaper Features
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  • 278 1 Secret Message Sent To America Curfew Hits 500 Fisherfolk—See Back Page U.P., A.P. Reuter. NANKING, Wed—China's military hero, General Tv Yu Ming, Commander of the East China Armies was trapped by the Com ■nun Ist yesterday while trying to escape from Hsucbow reports the Chinese
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  • 33 1 The King Si mples Again King George smiles at the crowd of Londoners who waited at Buckingham Palace to Nn all t<> Sandrißffham on January 8. He was accompani* d by Queen Elizabeth.
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  • 108 1 U.P. LONDON, Wed. A high government spokesman said today that a Commonwealth Foreign Ministers conference will be held, possibly in the near future, at Colombf The spokesman said Prime Minister Attlee will make a statement on "Commonwealth consultations'' when the House of Commons reassembles on January
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  • 26 1 CAIRO. Wed.— The newspaper El Assas reported today that oilmen working near Suez struck a well capable of producing 5.000 tons of oil daily.
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  • 509 1 Reuter and A.P. AMMAN, Wed.—British troops on Wednesday were engaged in digging trenches and consolidating positions around the little Red Sea port of Akaba following the despatch of a British force there under the Anglo-Transjordan treaty. Akaba consists of little J more than a
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  • 84 1 Reuter. LONDON, W r ed. The King will hold an investiture at Buckingham Palace on March i. This will be the first major function which the King has held since his illness was announced on December 22. It is understood that special arrangements will be
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  • 53 1 U.P. WASHINGTON. Wed. President Truman flew unexpectedly this afternoon to Pinehurst, North Carolina, to talk with Secretary of State Marshall. According to Even Ayers assistant in the office of Press Secretary Charles Ross, "the President wanted to see him once more while he is still secretary
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  • 191 1 BIELEFELD, Westphalia. Wed. Capt. Guy Oakley Maund, 57-year-old former Royal Navy officer and chief of the British Frontier Control Service in Germany, was found guilty here today on a charge of larceny and fined £25 or one month's imprisonment. Capt. Maund. who holds the Distinguished Service
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  • 189 1 A.P. MONTROUX. Switzeiland. Wed. Twelve boys and girls, all under 14 years, and a nurse died this morning in a fire at Les Disiccone children's home, where they had been spending a holiday. Two older children jumped from the windows and escaped with slight injuries.
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  • 52 1 LONDON. Wed. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, chairman of the Western European Alliance's Military Committee, left by air for Germany on Wednesday. The office of the Alliance's Secretary-General in London refused to answei inquiries about the nature of his mission or as to what parts of Germany he
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  • 32 1 U.P. NEW YORK. Wednesday. Hh said that Albeit KinsVf&. warid-rentwrned physicists and mathematician, will be leleased from the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn today or tomorrow, following his abdominal operation. -U.P.
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  • 92 1 The Malaya Thomas Cap fnam trounced the W.iiihledon Club by six games to nil .a draight sets before a large crowd here today. Wong i'eag Soon scored a lava set over Noel Kadford, English international player, and in the second set conceded only lour pom.s. The
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  • 39 1 Admiral Sir Deata Boyd, former C-in-C Far Eastern Fleet, salds for the t'nited Kingdom from Singapore today in the tro,.p.-hi,» DiJwara. He handed over to his successor as C-in-C, Vice-Ad-miral Sir Patrick Prind. on Tuesday this week.
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  • 124 1 Tribune Staff Reporter THK Dutch authorities will be asked to p*y damages which may exceed 3130.0?u for machine-gunning and sinking :he ton Singapore barter trade vessel Kian Pet*? off Pakan Baroe on New Year's Fve. The Economic Affairs Branch in Singapore have asked both agents
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  • 188 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Wed.—Far Eastern observers believe that strong action by the Security Council on the Indonesian problem will profoundly effect the forthcoming conference at New Delhi. They said that if the Coun- cil action demonstrates that the big powers truly support the Indonesians it would
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  • 54 1 STOP PRESS Reuter. SHANGHAI. Wed. At 1 l»-ast 3,000 people were rendered homeless, when a fire gutted 600 rnatsheds in the northern district of Shanghai. One person was report- j ed to have perished in the lire which started when a j child upset a
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  • 246 2 Tire Near House, Always A Worry' U.P. MANILA Wed. THE prospect of a Communist' China as i next 1 door neighbour has Filipino leaders worried but not afraid. Speaker Eugenio Perez of the house of representatives, one of those mcst nterefiled in combatting communism
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  • 141 2 A.P. NEW DELHI. Wed. The 1,000,000 non-Muslim refugees In Bombay Province will have townships of their own if the Government of Bombay accepts the 450,000--000 Rupee (S.$370.000,000) scheme prepared by the Nehru Government for the permanent rehabiliation of the refugees. Of the 7.000,000 nonMuslim refugees that
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  • 31 2 A.P. NEW DELHI, Wed. India has opened a Consulate-General at Kashgar, in Chinas Sinkiang Province. Captain R. D. Sathe has assumed charge as the first Indian Consul there. —A.P.
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  • 207 2 U.P. NEW YORK, Wed.—Two substancs-- one taken from the hog and the other Iran the horse —are making human blood transfusions safer. There are four common types of blooc, A B. AB, and O, with group O the co-called uti: versa
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  • 40 2 Mr. and Mrs. Low Beng Teck were married last Saturday at the Registrar of Marriages Office, Singapore. The bride was formerly Miss Kob Beng Guat. She is a sister of Mr. Koh Khim Tee. the well-known Chinese niarchant.
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  • 250 2 Reuter. LONDON. Wed.—ln ports ai: over the world sailors are looking with increasing interest at a colourful flag which flutters on many ships sailing the seven seas. The flag, with its two blue and red SLOTS, is the national emblem of the Central American
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 263 2 On Your Radio Today BLUE NETWORK "etc, PROGRAMMES IN ENGLISH nd Amoy; 1.15 Close jU; 11.45 Dance Music; 2.00 Annct. in JJjjjdJrjn. 5.01 limm rv Amoy Musical Interlude; 5.30 «n^hUHr^ Tornpr «20 Mandarin Dance Music; 6.00 KSti?"ft^H«2SSEr 700 Cldfle Down; 9.00 Sig. Tune Bo BaHadS r M Xt N^ 7
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  • 398 3 Reuter. BERLIN, Wed.—The three Western Military Governments, mindful that ao field of Ger.uan professional knowledge suffered more severely during the Nazi regime than did medicin.\ are today helping physicians to catch up on n.-w medical advances made in ether partt
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  • 164 3 U.P. NEW YORK. Wednesday. Undulant fever, a disease that lower animals transmits via milk to human beings, is about to be knocked out by medical science. In fact, during 1949 it may be relegated to the category of a minor ailment, as a result of a
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  • 93 3 A.P. NEW DELHI. Wed.—A Foreign Relations Society" has been formed here with the object of furthering friendly relations with outside nations. Professor N. G. Ranga, pre bident ol the Andhra Provincial Congress party Committee, is the chairman of this society. He is also a member of the
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  • 180 3 Reuter. MANILA. Wed.— Judge Manuel Camus, Philippines' No. 1 YMCA proponent, calls uoon the youth of the land to embue themselves with moral strength" and do away with their racial inferiority complex •He says "the feeling that we arc inferior to other peoples is
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  • 34 3 A.P. PARIS. Wed. Siam has joined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it was announced here Wednesday. Siam is the 45th member st'ite. Its membership takes effect this month.—A.P.
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  • 66 3 U.P. MANILA, Wed. A new United states permanent overseas military cemetery has been establish! d at Fori McKmley. Manila. Formerly tne site of the Fort William McKinley post cemeery. the new burial ground is th e only permanent American cemetery in the Pacific area other than that
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    46 3 One ol 700,000 Aral) refugees ironi the Palestine war seeking peace in Lebanon, this unhappy child squats amid the rubble In a tent city. Like the other young refugees, this ch'dd Of war is fed by the batted Nations Infernatiomil Children's Emergency Fund.
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  • 179 3 U.P. COLOMBO. Wednesday. The arrival in Ceylon early in January of Sir Patrick Abercrombie, the Town Planning Consultant to the Government of Ceylon, to finalise the new Regional Planning Schem? of, Colombo, will also focus attention on a review of the Government's housing policy. The present
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  • 274 3 A.P. GENEVA. Wed. -The International Labour Organization, which is seeking a /oimiO. foz spreading the world s manpower where it can do the most good, will come to grips with the problem here today when its perma»»eii? migration committee goes in.o session. ing on the future
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  • 138 3 Reuter. GLASGOW. Wed j little Arab boy, il-yeaj old Mohammed Huzani is having his first log at Britain —and thanij ing Allah for l»eing good to him. Mohammed stow c away in a British sh j at Aden "to sample fn i British education." When the
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    • 244 3 EDUCA"IIONAL"" 1, Eastaff English School. 35, jCtange Rd., Singapore. London Alatticulation Senior Cambridge Classes (with Physics Chemistry? reopen on 17-1-49. Apply for admission immediately. Rev. M. N. Char les B.D. Principal. (A.444) OPPORTUNITY FOR BUSINESS CAREER The Singapore Branch Office of a Hritish Insurance Company invites applications from young (age
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  • 503 4 lIARD on the heels of the new Emergency Regulations, Grenadier Guards movj into the notorious Kajang area of Selangor to round up squatters for repatriation. From first reports the operation appears to be well planned. Full preparations have been made for handling those swept. IllwO the net
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  • 1135 4  -  By WES GALLACHER A.r. Correspondent Associated Press. IS Ameiican policy in Europe succeeding? Is it being soundly administered? The answers to these questions are not to be found in some of the public statements which have been issued on this subject. Supporters of
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  • 241 4 U.P. A COMMUNISTIC, antiwhite, nationalistic movement in the Pacific island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands appears to be dying a natural death, reports the Honiara correspondent of Pacific Islands Monthly. The correspondent reports that the leaders of the movement caused disillusionment by "skipping out the back
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  • 88 5 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE—The cost ol prefabricated homes importid from Britain had been reduced from .€947 to £830 fob. the Victorian Minister for Transport (Mr. W. S. Hughes) announced Tecentl; The Minister added that the first shipment of homes was expected in April, for the housing of 12.000
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  • 86 5 A.P. KARACHI, Wed. An Association to exploit the e.timat'd 320,000 si'.iea sund available in Western Pakistan has been formed here. The sand, which is useful for glass industry "and for the manufacture of sodium silicate. in found in four districts of We stern Pakistan. Dr.
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  • 363 5 HOLLYWOOD, Wed.—The milliouaiico Hollywood film star is a thing of the past. This word come 3 from Bo Roos, who guides the financial destinies of many film figures. "Anyone who becomes a siar in these times cannot hope to be a millionaire unless he
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  • 134 5 U.P. MANILA, Wed. Alfredo Protacio is always being mistaken for something he is not. Protacio is a Fi'ipino midshipman in the I nit ed States merchant marine cadet corps. He was among the first cadets sent to the United States under a provision of the Philippine rehabilitation act
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  • 69 5 U.P. BILBAO. Wed. Norwegian codfish, a much favoured delicacy in Spain, will once again be "available to Spanish housewives. A first shipload of codfish from Norway arrived at this port recently and other consignments are expected to follow shortly. Norwegian codfish has been unavailable here
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  • 262 5 U.P. LONDON, Wed. British research into the problem of extending the life span is up against a major obstacle—no one who ever lived has died a natural death. Until science docs find someone who died "naturally'' probably at 150 or 200 yea is
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  • 79 5 Reuter. MANILA. Wed. Scandinavia today is one of the most advanced social laboratories in the world. Thii is according to Benjamin DioniMo who bag just n turned from observing and studying social conditions In Denmark, Norway and Swe den under the United Nations welfare lellowship programme
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  • 480 5 SWITCH FROM DINNER CLOTHES TO OVERALLS A.P. LONDON. Wed.—British peers are checking the "Help-Wanted" ads these days. Modern tim?s and Socialism in Rritaia have ca'isjht up with the feudal system of nobility, many an earl or lord has switched frr»m dinner to overalls in order to
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  • 117 5 There's* the Marquis I of Mil ford Haven, tor j example, whose name h«s Iven linked ro- 1 manticall.v with Skarinan, the daughter of I .S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, by gossip columnistH. He's a cousin of the King and was best man at the wedding of I'rin- i
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  • 26 5 Reuter. LONDON. Wed.- Pam c 1 a Fisher. 28-year-old West End actress, has been left £20.000 in the will of her aunt.- Reuter.
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  • 27 5 U.P. JERUSALEM. Wed. The Holy City was alerted for 40 minutes early today while an unidentified plane flew over the Jewish sector. No incidents were reported.—U.P.
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  • 316 5 A.P. COLUMBUS, OHIO, Wed.—Rocket ships, fired by liquid hydrogen, could travel to the moon— if a ship existed that could mine the trip. That is the latest word on inter-planet travel from Dr. H. L. Johnston, Ohio State University's rocket c xpert. He
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  • 112 5 Reuter. CANTON. Wed. For tome J time now there has been de- bate as to whether foreign I business establishments in j Canton are liable to contribute towards the special lo- c»\ self-defence tax. The question has now been settled as it is reported that
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  • 228 5 Reuter. TOKYO, Wed. More than 9,000 former Japanese servicemen have made their 1:1 the mountains of Formosa rather than return to Japan. They have married native women, organised their own colony and support themselves by larming and hunÜBf. This report was recently brought to Japan by
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  • 160 5 Reuter. "CANTON. W(d. Source( close to Dr. T. V. Soong re-:« port that since his returr.from his recent Nanking vi» sit he has kept a strict SH lence on what was di c cussec. vhtn he saw Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a"d othej. fading personalities in the
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 89 5 VIC FLIXT By Michael O'Mallcy and Ilalph Lane om RED SEVEN ON I IJBBV LANG, DOWN -x] [TrV\i?. P L INT? I'D LIKE TO CONSULT E* BdjUst got STAIRS VIC. A MAN JUST U ABOUT A VERY PERSONAL bdCk from \THERE GOES THE < STOPPED IN TO ASK WHERE <
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  • 257 6 Soccer Tour proposal that in the coining soccer seaM>n the Association's affiliates combine together to field two teams in the league championship under the Association's banner was made yesterday by .Mr. Sim Kwang Tow, presiding at the anniui meeting of the Singapore Chinese F*olbal? Vssociaticn.
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  • 106 6 A.P. NEW YORK, Wednesday. Cunard Officials are mystified by a stowaway successful in coming as a member of the crew on the Caronia's maiden voyage to New York. Modan M. Crute. aged 26, cf Bradford, Yorkshire. Is reported to have succeeded in drawing seme pay and
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  • 49 6 Reuter. TIENTSIN, Thursday. Con.fnuniat guns yesterday were concentrated on Government warehouses situated directly opposite the Bund. Five shells landed in Butterfield and Swire property along the waterfront and damage was caused. Jardines Building began shuttering up all windows following a similar action by the British Consulate.—Reuter.
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  • 35 6 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS. Wednesday.- Mi. Trygve Lie. United Nations Seeretaary-Gencial. at his weekly press conference today said that United Nations observer* are expected to oe in Kashmir "by the end of the month." Reuter.
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  • 172 6 Reuter. CHICAGO, Wed. A local, brother and sister said to- J day that a Danish woman newspaper publisher whom they had never met had left them $100,000 because of a childhood romance with theii uncle. Odvar and Lorraine Nielsen said a Danish law iirm told them
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  • 32 6 Reuter. Oslo. Wed.—The Soviet Russian Skating Association are entering a team of four for the women's world speed skating enampienships to be held at Kongsberg on Feb. 12.— Reuter.
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  • 39 6 The Malayan Badminton Team arrived at Tilbury on Dee. 27th. Photo Shows: Wong Peng Soon (Left) greeted by I>*e Keng Tuan a student living in London on arrival at St. Panems Station today Dec. 27 Iloth come from Singapore.
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  • 96 6 Reuter. Southampton, Wed. Six greyhounds and 24 pullets ordered by the Nawab of Bahawalpur left Southampton today by BOAC flyingboat. Food put aboard included a sack of corn, two sacks of biscuits and a crate of tinned meat. When the flying boat reaches Pakistan it should
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  • 224 6 COLOMBO, Wed.-Fifty candidates with high academic qualifications and ex;;er:*nce were selected out of nearly 350 applicants from Vienna for .specialist posts in Ceylon, said Dr. W. G. Wickremesinghe, Acting Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, who examined th* applicants and made the selections in £ur«'pe during
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  • 113 6 Reuter. COLOMBO. Wed.—Ceylon* cost of living Index lor Deef mber, on which January s j deamess allowance" will be paid, has reached a new re- j cord of 264 points m Colombo and 268 points in the up country estates. This means that in
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  • 96 6 U.P NEW YORK. Wednesday. Hemik Mannerfrtd, exporter importei of New York and GotelKug. Sweden, was today made a Papal Knight in recognition of the aid he has given Catholic institutions in me United States and Canada. "I am grateful I am allowed to live and wcrk in the
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  • 199 6 U.P. NEW YORK. Wednesday. A New York Times cditotiul entitled "Anival of a Graceful Lady" paid tribute today to the new* British liner Caronia winch has just arrived heie on ncr maiden voyage Said the Times: "in a dress of contesting shades of green,
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  • 339 6 Reuter. vattpaN CITY KM-— Monsignor Paul Yu Pin. This is what he said: -The Chinese forces number about 2.000.000 combatants and today occupy about one-third of country that is the richest part of territorial China with some 80 percent, of its natural and industrial
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  • 98 6 Reuter. SYDNEY. Wed.—The home consumption price of zinc was raised by £18 a ton and lead by £13 a ton in Australia at the beginning of 1949. The State Governments agreed to th e higher price subject to two conditions. The Commonwealth Government shall
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    • 239 6 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SURNAME TAKE NOTICE that by a deed poll dated the 7th day of January 1949, Constance Alice Leonard of 933, Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore, widow. a natural born British subject renounced and abandoned the surname of Hale. Dated the Bth day of January, 1949. Sandy Pillay
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  • 85 7 AAP. MELBOURNE, Wed.— Victorian 100 yards freestyle record-holder Ken Knox has such a long reach that he has to accentuate the bend in his arms stroking underwater m they will not scrape the bottom at the shallow end of pools. Knox 6 ft. 6 ins. tall, normally
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  • 112 7 SIX of the twelve bottles of "Ohatlonge" Scotch Whisky donated to the Tribune Thomas Cup Fund by a well-known Singapore sportsman are still unclaimed. So we are reducing the targel of $50 and a bottle will go to everyone who gives $25 or more to
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  • 237 7 The Khalsa Association hockey XI played definitely superior hockey to defeat the 223 8.0.D. at St. George's Road yesterday by 3-nil. The Khalsa's skipper, Anoop Singh played his last game. He is going to India today. He was outstanding in tne attack with his swift
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  • 95 7 U.P. CINCINATTI, OHIO, Wed. Baseball Commissioner Albert "Happy" Chandler today found the New York Giant' team manager. Leo Duroch er, and the new Giants coacu. Fred FitzSimmons guilty of violating the "tampering' rule and'suspended Fitz Sim mons for the first month vi the forthcoming season and fined
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  • 731 7 Love Set By Peng Soon (From Jimmy Glover) LONDON, Wednesday. THE Malayan Thomas Cup badminton team. 1 playing their first important fixture in England, tonight beat a strong Wimbledon Club side by six matches to zero at Wimbledon here. The hard-hitting, brilliantly accurate, Malayans thrilled
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  • 144 7 A.P. CLEVELAND, Wed .—Certain mid-southerners cut the Olympic star, Harrison Dillard, out of the James E. Sullivan Award because he is a tfaKTO, -uoo oo r T Ainuiif uoiuq aflamw ubduouiv tended Wednesday. The South voted Dillara Baldwin Wallace College H fourth place in the
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  • 206 7 Reuter. PRAOtte, Wed.—The winter sports for members of the International Students' Union, to be held »n Czechoslovakia's Giant Mountains from Jan. 29 to Feb. 6, will be a political demonstration against "reactionary" circles in the student movement, according to a statement issued by Union headquarters here.
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  • 419 7 Reuter. COPENHAGEN, Wed. The decision of the Danish Badminton Association to drop their veteran star Paul Holm from the Thomas Cup team to mccl England in the European zone final here on Jan. 20 and 21 caused considerable surprise in Danish badminton
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  • 99 7 Reuter-AAP. I SYDNEY, Wed.—With the object of breeding stayers, Mr. H. Macknamara, of Wyndham Park stud, Werribee, Victoria, .as imported Voluntary from England. Voluntary from Victoria recently. He is a bay horse, rising 7, by Foxhunter from Gliding, and has won thirteen races. Voluntary gets his great staying
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  • 85 7 The following players will represent the C.S.A. in a friendly game of soccer against Telok Blangah Rangers at Fairer Park at 515 p.m. sharp: Kah rhec, Pui Sang, Khai Vow, Sunn Leng, Chwee Leng, Peng Kee, Guan Chwee. Fook Seng, Weng Kee (Capt.). Hin Weng, Kirn Kang, Ah
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  • 293 7 The Changi Ladies beat the S. C C Worm by three to two at hockey on the Padar yesterday. This was their second victory over tl S. C. C. Women. Piay was fairly even for the first twenty minutes of the' game. The Changi Ladies got the
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  • 80 7 THE Argonauts Badminton Party of Malacca, foremost party in the Settlement and winners of the Malacca Badminton Association's Inter Party Competition in 1948 for the second successive year, will hold their second post-war annual general meeting on Jan. 15 at 3 p.m. at the Party's pavilion. The
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  • 179 7 JEJI Goldstein, the Pales Champion, heads the at the Great World on Sa day when he meets the pop) Indian Tiger Joginder. Goldstein is a strong ort dox wiestler who has based scientific style on the Gre< Roman style, but he will 1 the Indian, and
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  • 75 7 A.P. SYDNEY, Wed.—Making first appearance in Austrt,] in Manly Oval Wednest J nignt, the Panama Ne}| Lloyd La Beach won the 11 yard international challer race in 9.8 seconds. The New Si uth Wales spr 1 ter Ted Strickland was secci, in
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  • 40 7 The following have been cl sen to represent the S.H R.F.C. versus S.C.R.C. at R;1 burn Park today at 5.15 p.m H Bain: Johnson, Saunde>l Bell. Coutenho; Bainbridj Archer; Leask, Hooper, H Donald; Ridgeway, Moot Frisbv: Davis. North.
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    • 72 7 IHIIII W WHILE COXVS NAPPIN' I'M GONNA \f MAR6O HAS SEEN 100% D F WEICOMfc, VM" MARGO 1 jfl GOT REAL TRC\6.c IT 3E vn L„ m GyPSY MARGO: SHE WILL TELL j l /N HER PREDICTIONS OF V FRIENDI WANT YOU pis TIME... I JUSTf FRIEND f 5 Curly
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  • 409 8 Can't Fish So Face Diet Of Tapioca Tribune Staff v nniir, MINETY-TWO Malay families f?pres maii^; nearly 500 people have stated that Lhe> face a diet of tapioca very soon if instant re:* f n not forthcoming. They are the fisherfolk of Changi w>
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  • 43 8 FIRST DIDE FOE PRINCE CHARLES-Prince Charles had ri ear n,j lu-d >'.. v «■-o witfi bin |»nr. ru> ii. i. >i i .1... or i-ini. rtntMre tfhwwa Print i i. .-..»,0 ubi-h gathered I»» mn' r t '•> I, i U7.— Pit m»-. A.P. Picture.
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  • 195 8 Woodlands Camp A Model Oriental Village Today Tribune Staff Keimrter I WOODLANDS CAMP —home of about 2,500 C Pioneer Corps men .stationed in Singapore—has been transformed from a mudsoakea tented area in a ibbber plantation I clearing, into a neatly laid-out and well planned model Oriental village. The "miracle" was
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  • 80 8 THE 520 squatters who were registered and removed from Sungei Jeloh, Selangor, after a combined military/police sweep on Tuesday are being evacuated to Malacca, it is learned. They have been housed temporarily in a reception centre in Kajang. They were evicted from their squatter area under
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  • 157 8 Sarkies Martyrose Arathoon. in the Seventh Police Court yesterday, pleaded guilty to charges that the falsified accounts and committed criminal breach of trust in respect of $88,920.73 belonging to the Raffles Hotel in last October. Arathoon was committed to the Assizes. John Ford, Secretary of the hotel
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  • 252 8 IfONTOR LTD. and its two directors, Giovanni Aurely Bad William VhrKCßfl Saussotte were found guilty on two more charges tinder the Pimm Regulations yesterday. Saussotte told the District Court, he had asked the Exchange Controller during an interview: How the Regulations could be
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  • 17 8 A.P. BEIRUT. Wednesday. Tho railway strike ended Wednesday, the Government having accepted the workers' demands.A.P.
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  • 130 8 DUTCH untitled A.P. MELBOURNE. Wed. -Dutch .ships sailing from Australia are to by-pass Indonesian ports and ply direct to Singapore and Malaya, the Australian for the Netherlands announced today. Agreement had earlier been reached with waterside unions not to accept Australian cargoes for Indonesia. The
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  • 49 8 A decree nisi gi anted to Chief Inspector C. W. Such of the Singapore Police dissolving his marriage with his wife, Lydia Grace Such, on July 27 last, was made absolute by the Acting Chief Justice. Mr. Justice I Gordon-Smith. in the High I Court yesterday.
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  • 268 8 U.P. BATAVIA, Wed.—The Dutch army reported today that Republican guerrillas caused some damage in an attack on Sunday night at Jogjakarta, Republican capital seized by the Dutch on the first day of their war against the fledgling Republic. i.v- communique said the tUackera destroyed the
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  • 64 8 LONDON. Wednesday. London llower shops are doing a record trade in orchids at a guinea a bloom for hig one.-,. The Cattleya variety is most favoured for making int.) a cor rage of several blooms. You can buy them in different shades mauve, red. gold
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  • 65 8 THESE poverty stricken t hinese hiinVtled bj rampaging inflation, have found a way to make ends meet. They buy loads of m:inuf:tctured goods in Shanghai and hop crowded trains thai ta";c (hem to the countryside where they McH I the {roods, and in turn buy a supply of
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  • 94 8 BUCK HILL. Pennsylvania, Wed.—The President of the United Council of Church Women. Mrs Harper Sibley, last night urged removal of sociological obstacles to in-ter-racial marriage. While admitting the existence ol many difficulties to successful inter-racial marriages. Mrs. Sibley s aid it was the obligation of Christians
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  • 72 8 .Y.W.C.A.: Wayfarers Club, j. Rallies Quay —1.30 p.m. fHE COMEDY OF tKBOES: presented by the Little I heatre Piayers, Little Theatre, Armenian Street —8.30 p.m. CHINESE Y.M.C A.: 107 SeIcgic Road: Social committcc meeting —6.30 p.m. rHEOSOPHICA L SOCIETY: Mrs H. B. Moorhead on "The BrotherlanU,"
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  • 236 8 CATHAY: "Julia Misbehaves," with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon —1.45. 4.15, d.45 and 9 30 p.m. ALHAMBRA: "Undersea Kingdom" (.serial) with Ray "Crash" Corrigan—1.30, 5.30 and 9.15 p.m. CAPITOL: "Tap Roots" (in technicolour) with Van Hrflin and Susan Hay ward—1.45, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. HEX: "The Man from
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  • 12 8 SOCCER: Jollilads v. Singapore Improvement Trust Sports Club (Farrer Park)—5.15 p.m.
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  • 83 8 riiHE Perak Malay Religious Teachers' Union. Taiping. is pro--1 testing against the retrenchment of 25 of their members ordered by the Sultan of Perak, recently, a Majlis report says The Union said there was no reason given fci their retrenchment. It has decided to call an emergency meeting
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