Malaya Tribune, 14 January 1949

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    63 1 The Malaya Tribune BY IHE PEOPLE POR THE PEOPLE Larrcr Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper in alalaya. Printed Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh ft Penany. Telegrams: "Tribune Spore." Telephone: 5811 (9 lines). EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice Glover, c/a
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    BRITAIN IS ON THE RIGHT PATH
    234 1 Cripps Urges Bigger Dollar Drive Reuter. LONDON, Stafford Cripps. Chancellor of the Exchequer, said today that one of Britain's major tasks in 1949 would b< to expand her exports to hard currency markets— particularly th? United States, Canada Argentina, Belgium and Switzerland. There was
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    Bridegroom Gets Poor Present
    57 1 U.P. HAMBURG, Thurs The labour Ofliee in nearby Kiel stepped in today and east a gloom over the recent marriage of 25 year old Herbert Guile to an HI year old widow. Officials cut off Herbert's unemployment benefits, claiming that he had made enough money selling
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    ARMS FOR EUROPE
    78 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Thurs. Defence Secretary James Forrest.-.! said today "tha* President Truman shortly will ask Congrcrs for authority to send arm.i to friendly Eu r opean nations. Forrestal said in a letter to Republican Senator Harry Cain that tho National Security Council has endorsed and the President
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    INDIANS BESIEGE EMBASSY
    60 1 Reuter. RANGOON. Thursday. Two hundred Indians besieged the Indian Embassy in Rangoon today to demand shipping facilities to India. An Embassy spokesman said the agents had stated that no tickets were available for the steamship Karoa bound for Madias on Sunday. The demonstrators dispersed od the assurance
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    Pirates Fail To Capture River Steamer
    39 1 U.P. HONGKONG. Thurs. Pirates today tried to seize the river steamer Kwaishan and ran into a police ambush. Four pirates were killed, two were wounded, seven arrested and two others jumped overboard. U.P.
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    Thousands Grieve For Tommy Handley
    219 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs—Tens of thousands of saddened Londoners lined the six-mile rour«; today to bid farewell to Britain's best-loved radio comedian, Tommy Handley. Men 'Hid women, many with tears in their eyes, stood in silent tribute to the man who kept Britain laughing through the
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    CRISIS ARRESTS
    22 1 Last night two Chinese were arrested under the emergency regulation on suspicion of being members of the Malayan Communist Party.
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    Security Council Satisfied
    134 1 LAKE SrcCESS. Thurs.— 'he Security Council was ex tected today to express it ■atisfaetion over tho successfu OCnpictlo.l of arrangements t ettle the dispute between th< nd'an and Pakistan dovern \.»n's on t»>.> Kashn! > issue. The Council was due to meet t 8 p.m. GMT, to
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    LETTERS TO SYRIA
    31 1 LONDON. Thurs. Britain's Post-Master General ar nounced tonight that insured letters and parcels of maximum insured I value 110 pounds ma\ not be. sent to Syria and Lebanon.
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    SHOOT TO KILL ORDER IN NANKING
    278 1 Reuter. NANKING, Thurs. Shoot to kill orders against law-breakers were issued here today. Anyone who destroyed vehicles or disturbed the peace in the city shopping centre would be shot immediately, the garrison commander, Gen. Ching Yao-ming stated. Extra military police were petrolling the capital
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    DUTCH BEAT AIR BAN
    71 1 A.P. MALTA, Thurs. A Dutch onstellaUon aircraft which landed in Malta Thursday night on route to Amsterdam reported having flown non-stop from Bangkok to Sharjah in the Persian Gulf—a distance about one and half times as long as an Atlantic crossing. The airline which reached Malta
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    100 Years Young
    28 1 U.P. I CAPE TOWN, Thurs. J Henry Potts, 100 year old Negro, became a i father of a son today.— j His wife is 39.—U.P.'
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    TUGBOAT STRIKE POSTPONED
    86 1 NEW YOPK. Thurs. The tugboat strike which would have crippled shipping in New York haroour has been postponed at least until midnight tonight. A strike by 5.500 tugboat and fuel oil barge erew s was originally to have begun at midnight Wednesday night, but after lightning negotiations
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    BODY FOUND NEAR THE CAUSEWAY
    45 1 The police are investigating death of a 4&-year-oid Chinese whose body was found yesterday on the beach near the Singapore end of the causeway. The man's identity card revealed an address in Weld Road. Singapore. He was cook by profession.
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    Tungku Rahman Passes
    138 1 Reuter. LONDON. Thurs. Tunku Abdul Rahman, brother of the Sultan of Kedah. has passed his bar final at the age of 45. his name appeared in today's list. Tunku Rahman hopes to return to Singapore on February 4. after an absence of two and a half years.
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    U.S. Trip For Margaret And Blandford?
    208 1 UP LONDON, Thurs—Despite Buckingham Palace denials London society gossiped today about the possibility of Princess Margaret visiting the United States. The gossips speculated the Ptincess might make the trip to Amei ica in a month or so. The last time such a tumour circulated.
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    U.S. AIR CHIEF HERE
    83 1 Rear-A 'renal W. G. Tomlin<on. Chief of the Pacific Division of the United States Military Air Transport Service, paid a cad t.< S rgapore yesterday mon.;n" by a Skymaster aircraft on a "familiarisation tour" of the various airfields in Southeast Asia. He was accompanied by eleven
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    Jews-Arabs Talk Peace
    98 1 Reuter. RHODES. Thursday. Dr. I Ralph Bunche. United Nations acting Palestine mediator, opened the Israeli-Egyptian I armistice talks here today by appealing to all governments to avoid incidents which "might jeopardise the constructive progress of deliberations towards an armistice acj cord." The conference is the flrst I
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    Death Sentence For Rape And Murder
    74 1 U.P. MUNICH. Thursday. An American soldier was sentenced to death by a United States Military Tribunal in Fuessen today for raping and killing a German girl. Private Joseph D. Bright, whose trial started last December will die by hanging, the court announced. He raped
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    OPIUM HAUL
    40 1 Five persons are being charged in the police court today in connection with the seizure yesterday of a considerable quantity of opium valued at $500,000. The seizure was made by Customs officials in a house at Tanjong Rhu.
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    Mystery Man Found AI Sen
    87 1 STOP PRESS Mystery surrounds a N'ejrro found floating in a Hfebelt near the southern end of the Mole in Singapore, this morning. The man was picked b a Singapore Master Attendant launch and brought ashore. Apparently little the worse for his experience, the man who
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    Six Bandits Killed
    72 1 In the Kuala Kangsar area yesterday four banuits were shot ueau and three captured of whom two were vounded by a Gurkha patrol, i'hsee pistols and one hand grenade, and documents were recovered. In the-Mentakab trea at 7.30 a.m. yesterday, a military pairol taideu aouse near Mong
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    CANTON HOLDS NO WELCOME FOR GEN. CHIANG
    322 2 Reuter. d his <-overnment.are forced from and retreat as had been suggested to Canton, lie wiM return to the city frpm which as Dr. Sun fatten* successor he hat Ztlil* *C revolution northward in the lambus march of 1926 }F* Communists were then
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    Sally (44) swindled cell mate
    144 2 Reuter. HEREFORD, Thurs.—Sailj White, 44-year-old mother of six children, could not keec I within the law—even when I she was sent to prison. While serving her sentence, Sally met another prisoner, a Mrs. Gibbons whom she succeeded in swindling. Sally told Mrs. Gibbons she had
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    CARRIERS IN PEACE -TIME ROLE
    221 2 Reuter and AAP. ADELAIDE, Thuri, Twc aircraft carriers built in th< T'nited States for service with the Royal Navy during the wai recently arrived at Outer Harbour, Adelaide, in theii peacetime role of merchant ships. The ships met for the firsi time when they berthed
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    Passengers Robbed
    30 2 Reuter. HONGKONG, Thursday Passegners in a ferry plyine between Hongkong and Namau (Chinese territory) were held up at gunpoint today by pirates posing as passengers. The pirates escaped.—Reuter
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    OIL THAT GROWS ON TREES
    317 2 Reuter. SYDNEY, Thurs. Although a great (leal o, money has been soent in Australia, especially in Queensland, in the search for oil, so far th<> search has yielded little more than a promise Indications of oil have not been jvantirg, but payable oil has not
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    Boots May Cost More Down Under
    64 2 A.P. SYDNEY. Thurs.— Increases in boot and shoe prices in Australia, ranging from 2 shillings and 6 pence (Australian) to six shillings a pair are likely early this year. The reason j s an increase in leather prices. Sole leather has been increased by
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    She Sobbed 'I Fell Asleep'
    143 2 ATTRACTIVE Vlvietine Reynolds, a nhop assistant (Wft), went aboard the. liner Athlone Castle an. hour before it sailed from Cape Town on Christmas Eve. khe was lat<«r found in the Sick Bay with Jim Littlemore, a hospital attendant, who wan ordered to sse .(he captain.
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    41,000 Lives Were Saved In Ceylon During 1947
    312 2 Reuter. COLOMBO, Thurs.—The general death rate, maternal mortality and Infant mortality rites for 1947 are the lowest ever recorded in Ceylon says the Administration Report of Dr S F Chellappah, former Director of MedicnJ and Sanitary Services. A comparative study of vital
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      261 2 On Tour Radio TodW BLUE NETWORK g| J 2 p.m. Close Down? noon Signature Tune Ann 5 11x116 Si^al Opening 6 p.m. Programme Sum Announcement wd tTsunT™* Pro r mary; 6.02 Radio Cfrchestra ?5/ amme Summary in SL?J lmma f y m Tami with 640 Dance Music 7l Sf™»s 1203
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    Your Life Is In Danger In Eastern Germany Unless—
    536 3 Your Life Is In Danger In Eastern Germany Unless A.P. BERLIN Thurs. —It's tough to be a capitalist in Eastern Germany. Your life may be forfeit. It's fine to be a Communist. You get better rations, more coal for your home. and a father sfllarv. The Soviet occupation zone la
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    croffs for New Year.
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    ACHESON GETS O.K.
    101 3 U.P. WASHINGTON, Thurs.- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee completed ?ts hearing alter former Secretary of State Edward Stettmus Jnr., had endorsed Dean Acneson's nomination- -a "wise" one. Committee Chairman Tom Conally said nis committee might send the nomination to the Senate tomorrow and predicted the Senate would
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    STRANG IN INDIA
    72 3 Reuter. LONDON. Thurs.—Sir William Strang, who next month will become permanent head of the Foreign Office is now on a tour of Asia and the Far East, left Alexandria by air for Karachi, a Foreign Office -pokesman said. Sir William yesterdiy hac. a long talk in Alexandria
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    New Members In The Committee
    294 3 A.P. NEW DELHI, Thurs.—Seven new have been added to the Congress Workim- Com mittee in the list of 20 announced her: by Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya. Congress President cauas icne wafir wafir The new members are: Jagiivan Ram, Labour Minister, Government of India; Kala Venkata Rao.
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    Singer's Voice Saved
    156 3 U.P. NEW YORK. Thurs Marian Anderson. Negro smgeV who sang before the King and Queen when Their Majesties visited the USA in 1939 faced the loss of her voice and possibly her life last summer but was saved by a delicate A a pr°ominent New York physician
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    NUFFIELD'S LETTERS
    21 3 A.P. PERTH, Thurs. Lord Nuffield said at Perth Thursday that he had received 100 begging letters a week. -A.P.
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      1564 3 c OPPORTUNITY FOR BUSINESS CAREER The Singapore Branch Office of a British Insurance Company invites applications from young (age 24/26) well-educated Malayans for a permanent position on the managerial staff. No previous knowledge of insurance is necessary, as the successful applicant will learn the business through practical experience and tuition
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    THE CHICKEN AND THE EGG
    484 4 IT is generally agreed that if there is to be communal harmony in Malaya, the Chinese have to be given a bigger share in running the country and the Malays have to be helped economically. It is rather like the old problem of the chicken
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    THIS FARM SCHOOL TEACHES GOOD NEIGHBOURLINESS
    990 4  -  BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT FUTURE fanners of "Middle America" are cultivating their talents on a patch of American know-how in Honduras. That patch is the I'auAmeiican School of Agriculture outside Tegucigalpa, the capital. It is sponsored by the United Fruit Company, whose vast agricultural
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    Aussies Older
    109 4 U.P. AUSTRALIA'S population continues to age according to latest official census figures. In 1933 census 38.3 per cent, of the population was under 21 but in June 1947 with a population of 1,000.000 more, only 34.3 per cent, were under 21. The proportion of people past middle age
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    Atomic City Returns To Normal
    431 4 UP THIS Atomic City of Oak Ridge, Tennessee which sprang up five years ago as group of barracks and trailers on a field of mud will .soon lift its veil of raperaecrecy and blossom tort!] ;,!> a normal Trnnoiarj town. The public will be allowed
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    Calcutta May Set Rickshaw Fashion
    161 5 U.P. CALCUTTA, Thurs. Overpopulated and under-sup-plied in the matter of transpott. Calcutta is likcsy to be the hrst city in India to sport the "motor rickshaw," it is believed Exhibited at the recent Cycle Show in London, the new type of public conveyance is reported
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    EVEN FISH HAS GLAMOUR IN HOLLYWOOD
    99 5 A.P. HOLLYWOOD. Thurs.—Even the lowly carp (small fresh water nsu can t escape giamoumation i n Hollywood. For the movie, "Happy Times; a i Warmer. Brottnei-otud-o Com. dian Danny Kaye need d two ordinary carp, middle European variety. Although carp are abundant in lakes
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    VALENTINO'S LIFE TO BE FILMED
    67 5 A.P. HOLLYWOOD, Thurs—Th< life of the famous screen lover. Rudolph Valentino, win be Unwed next spring. That's the latest information on this long-awaited project which numerous false starts by various studios have delayed over the years. Virginia van Upp. who produced the fabulous'y profitable movie,
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    Unex pected Baby Makes Her Happy
    220 5 Reuter and AAP. ADEjLAIDEs Thurs. Paralysed from the waist down sinco she was aged eleven and married fourteen months ago, Mrs. Patricia Williams, aged 20, gave birth to a healthy baby at the end of 1948. The birth was caesarean, with three doctors in
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    Britain Soapless
    48 5 A.P. LONDON. Thurs Britain's small soap ration will be increased by one-sixth after January 30. Improved supplies of fats and oils from Afiica are responsible. Each consumer now is rationed to 1R ounces of toilet soap or 24 ounces of haul soap every eight weeks. A.I
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    HUMAN RADIO
    84 5 This is the story of a human radio, recounted by Leslie E. Wells in vian of the World. In 1942, he writes, a patient in an Ohio hospital was discovered to possess a brain which picked up wireless waves. However, to stop the nuisance, a metal band was
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    RED DRAMA GRIPS PEOPLE OF EASTERN GERMANY
    285 5 A.P. BERLIN, Thurs—Eastern Germa-iy i learning' the hard way how to live like the Russians. In three and a half years oi occupation, the Soviet Union has stamped its imtn:n: on 20,000,000 Germans b?tween the Elbe and Oder rivers. Loyal proconsuls of Moscow
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    Chinese refugees, Seeing Nanking as Communist troops advance toyvard the city, crowd into a river l>o:»' eu the Yangtze river. The failure of C hinese Caaaimnrista to :secepl Nationalist peace leeiern has kaefeaned the tension at Nanking.
    37 5 Chinese refugees, Seeing Nanking as Communist troops advance toyvard the city, crowd into a river l>o:»' eu the Yangtze river. The failure of C hinese Caaaimnrista to :secepl Nationalist peace leeiern has kaefeaned the tension at Nanking.
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    HIS 25th TRIP TO EUROPE
    67 5 AP. HOLLYWOOD. Thurs. actor Clifton Webb «01 make nts 25th trip to Europe th aionth. As soon as he finishes his -tarring role in the film "Mr. neivedtre Goes To College at 20th Century Fox, he will tour the continent with his mother. Mrs. Maybelle
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    India's Cotton Position
    154 5 A.P. new DELHI. Thur.s. India's coiton position is unsat j factory because of partition bad weather and a decline i:. imports. India lost the bulk of her cotton acreage to Pakistan when this subcontinent was divided. Since then, India has Decome increasingly depe»i L >T U on
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    SPECIAL ISSUE SEIZED
    41 5 Reuter. TOKIO. Thursday. Local newspapers reporteu --.agonal Police Headquarters at Osaka ordered seizure of the special issue of the Communist Akahata (Red Flag) for alleged violation of election regulations. According to election laws, canhdates cannot distrihute printed matter.—Reuter.
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    VORACIOUS LAD
    64 5 James Cody, of Geor- giu, U.S.A., was a voraci- 2 ous lad. I At two years three months, he could eat as much as his father and mother put together and 2 weighed eight stones. S He also measured four- 5 teen inches round his neck, and had
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    Red Plan To Sabotage Britain?
    92 5 Reuter. LONDON, Thursday. Mi. Arthur Deakin, President of the World Federation of Trade Unions, said today he would not give his source of information for a statement he made that a Communist plan to disrupt British industry was due to be put into operation next
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    INSURGENTS TAKE BURMA ISLAND
    79 5 Reuter. RANGOON, Thitrs.—Local e»e Army and Navy force* have put out from Rangoon in an expedition to recapture Bilugyun Island n<*ar Monlmetn, off the Burma coast from insurgents. After a 24-hour assault, the island fell this week to Mon and Karen tr»oes, who are demanding separate
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    A Conservative Govt. For Japan
    317 5 Reuter. TOKYO, Thurs.—Within a few days of the opening of the election campaign b roughr ofcout by the dissolution of the Diet late in December, the return of the strongest Conservali'» Government since the war seems assured. In an exclusive Interview, Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida
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    Philippines has Written Off 'Huk'question
    256 5 Reuter. MANILA, Thurs. about written off the I An official statement says Central Luzon is now practically free from Huk depredations, the southern Luzon province is clear and another southern province, Laguna, is undergoing the last phases of mopping up; only about 5.000 evacuees out
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    DREES CALLED 'GAULEITER'
    59 5 A.P. MOSCOW, Thursday. The New Times yesterday warned tn> Dutch Prune Minister, William Drees, that his visit to Indonesia is likely to remind the world of "the tiiumphal entry of Fascist dignitaries into the capitals of countries overrun by Fascist hordes." The New Tlmea also claimed that
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    DEMPSEY TO SPEED BOXING UP
    179 6 New Blood Needed A.P. DETROIT, Thurs.— JACK Dempsey, former world heavy weight J champion boxer, plans a one-man campaign to put boxing and wrestling on the "straight and narrow path." "The situation today in both sports is not good," Dempsey said in an interview. "And
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    Jollilads Trounce SIT Sports Club
    221 6 CENTRE-FORWARD Salahudin scored four goals out of the five in the soccer match between Jollilads and the Singapore Improvement Trust Sports Club at Farrer Park yesterday. The final result was a 5/0. After a scrappy first half better soccer was seen on tho change over,
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    Harbour Board Win Exciting Game
    351 6 A try by Chapman converted by Ridgeway a few minutes before the end turned the game in favour of the Singapore Harbour Board Rugby XV when they met the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club at Raeburn Park yesterday. The final inure was 8 point; ione go.il.
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    ACE PLAYER ELIMINATED
    42 6 LONDON. Thurs. Mademolsele Mirian de Borman, ace Belgian squash rackets player was eliminated Thursday tn the quarter finals of the British women's champlonsnip. She lost to Joan Guary defending champion and wellknown British lawn tennis player 9—l. -9—l, 9—7.
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    KIWIS MEET
    47 6 The Second Annua) General Meeting of the KIWI memt ers League will be held at the people's Education Association Headquarters, Handy Road, on Sunday, Jan. 16, at 1.15 p.m. Prizes will also be distributed to the successful competitors ♦n the* rewent bartmmton and table-tennis tournament."
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    61 Chess Matches
    40 6 A.P. TORONTO, Thurs. Dr. j Euwe, Holland, playing 61 che?« matches simultaneously won 48. j drew seven, lost six. i After a five and half hour- Euwe commented "sixtyone 1 ooards —that may be too many.' —A.P.
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      487 6 ENGAGEMENT The engagement took place on 9.1.49 between Che Hanaffi bin Ahmad of Kampong Chantek and Che Habibah binti Jaafar of Geylang. WANTED WANTED Cinchona Bark or Dust Delivery required in February 1949 for shipment to Bengal. Offers with samples to Box A 1938 c/o M.T., Spore. ACCOMMODATION MERCANTILE HOSTEL
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    MALAYA SHOULD WIN CUP —RADFORD
    219 7  -  'PENG SOON CAN BEAT FREEMAN 9 INTERNATIONAL BADMINTON TOURNAMENT (From JIMMY GLOVER LONDON, Thursday. by the briUiant display of Wong Feng Soon at whose hands he sustained his first love defeat in his badminton career, Noel Radford, England's foremost international player, is of the opinion
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    Shuttle Stars
    21 7 Joern Skaarup right, Denmark's No. I. player, and Panl Holm, who was recently dropped from Denmark's Thomas Cup Team.
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    MOHAN'S CLAIM ABSURD—LIM
    159 7  -  (From JIMMY GLOVER LONDON, Thursday IM K LIM CH V AN GE0K ma "ager and captain of the Malayan Thomas Cup Team commenting on the report that Dave Freeman' American champion, was meeting Devinda Mohan' India's No. 1 player, in Los Angeles for the "world's singles title",
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    World's Singles Title?
    78 7 Reuter. LOS ANGKIJCB, Thurs. S Dr. Daw I repman, Unit- ed States badminton champion, meets Davin- der Mohan, the Indian star, here on Saturday night in a inn!eh advertised as for the "world's singles title". The match is sponsorsi by the Soul hern California B sdminton Association.
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    DOLLAR RATION HARD TO GET
    90 7 A.P. LONDON, Thurs.-Joe Davis, 2? world snooker champion-. s hip cup holder for past 20 years, left London Thursday for a month s tQur Qf Ber J and a visit to New York sails tr«° rm f r ch ampion who hn't R° ni L
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    C.H.S. SOCCER
    95 7 tum^p fol, f t ,n^ h ar f asked to p a sOCCer a^alnst and Kpthi S U Sports Club 515 n m em Sports Club at 4 6 at p th; fSE?S2* on Ja Tav p a M Is mail, c. Chen/ 5, H' at C T
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    Boustead XI
    39 7 Club S Bouatcad Sports Cl "b at%S2 Rob,n son Sports atTi? r at Parrer Park i H p a S U n, S. A. Baker, ton David RailTan Ch n I 8" 3co Noordin. 1 Rashid. isoor.
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    Eastern Zone Makes Fine Recovery
    163 7 Reuter. thro ALLAHAB^ D < Thurs.-East zone afUr losing three wickets for only 14 runs at the sUrt (,f their four-day match against the West Indies touring team recovered well today an«J at the close had made 245 for the ln ss of six wick-ts
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    HARRINGAY ICE HOCKEY
    61 7 A.P. PRAGUE, Thurs. The ace Harnngay racers ice nockev team will play a Bratislava town team in Bratislava, Thursday as part of an expanded European programme. 1 omorrow night they will play Deske Budejevlce, Ostrava on Saturday and Bandion on Sunday night after which they return to
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    Cricket To Improve Relations
    99 7 A.P. BOMBAY, Thurs. J Highlighting the Improvt in g of relations between India and Pakistan, tho I Lahore correspondent of the National standard of Bombay, reported on i Thursday that India may J soon meet Pakistan on the cricket. i The tve-day goodwill lest match is
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    SELANGOR GOLD CUP ENTRIES
    853 7 THE following are the 145 entries for the Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup Meeting to be run at Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 22. 26 and 29. There will be eight races on the first and second days and nine on the third day. The Gold Cup
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    Racehorses Worth $100,000 Destroyed
    90 7 U.P. SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York, Thvrs.— Twenty three race horses valued in excess of US$lOO,OOO were destroyed by fire, which levelled newly built winter quarters at the Saratoga Raceway. Two stable hands in the budding escaped, according to Frank Wiswall, President-secre-tary of the Raceway Association. The
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    S.A.P. MEET
    27 7 Tho annual general meeting of the Social Athletic Party whicii was scheduled to have been held on the 9th Instant Ii postponed to Sunday 16th.
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    NEW ARSENAL CHAIRMAN
    35 7 A.P. LONDON. Thurs. gir Bricewell Smith, a 'ormer Lord Mayor of London, was elected •hairman Oi the Arsenal Football Club yesterday. He succeeds Sir Samuel Hill Wood, who died last week A.P.
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    Yeovil Meet Sunderland
    306 7 HOME SOCCER Reuter. LONDON, Thursday. *i 2 TOWN the only non-League club still in the competition, have been rev with another M t ractlve home tie, against powerful Sunderland, and tftey have no intention of asking for the game to be JSHrfW thelr opponent's ground. On their
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    FOURTH ROUND DRAW
    122 7 The draw for the fourth round of the Football Association Cup. matches to be played on Saturday, Jan. 29. was made today as follows: Sheffield Utd. v Wolverhamptcn W. Yeovil Town v Sunderland Rotherham Utd. v Burnley Aston Villa or BOlton W v Cardiff City. Stoke City
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    Ceylonese XI
    49 7 Sports Club to play the S.R.C on the 17th at S.R.C. at 5 p.m. will De: t T^ Th i Varajah S Nagalan. T. Thambirajah, M. Peters V Ramalingarr. V. John, S. YoeaEarn G R S 3ah H V Knsnn -n. Williams. Reserves: N. Balaslngham C rhanasmgham.
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      59 7 BUT gotta 'IS'J^SvS, NO !\,Tl NmW... THERE IS TROUBLE FORWPAT'S RISHT'.' SMH— I sEeTH Ii imtp PPPC t—■ »Mi|j Y O 3eAßp^l«A S^- TM L YOU- BUT IT WILL BE <AYOE .5 J A v.vgcs st* El. /WA lurlv 0N D| s one--^/r6^M s L l, p .L SO^ ON£
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    RED ACTION RENDERS 11,000 FAMILIES HOMELESS
    177 8 STORE CHINESE TO SEND RELIEF MORE than eleven thousand Chinese families have been rendered homeless in Sumatra by Indonesian Communists, according to reports received in Singapore. Seven thousand were rendered homeless in Djambi, and another 4,000 in Pakan Baroe. Mr. Kwek Soan Loh, Chairman
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    Former Emperor Surprises French
    191 8 Reuter. PARIS. Thurs. Leading French Cabinet Ministers met at an session today to consider Che deadlock in In-do-China arising from former Emp' rot Bao Dai's intimation of refusal to return as head of the new Vietnam state until the French Government have given practical effect to
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    Spain's Friendship For Arabs
    46 8 A.P. MADRID, Thurs. The Spanish Government has granted four Lebanese leaders including Premier Riad Solh, the Grand Cross Isabel La Catholica. The decorations are in accordance with Spain's friendly policy towards Arabs Spain having a large Arab population in the Moroccan colony.—A.P.
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    Call To Boycott Hayworth
    91 8 U.P. CHICAGO, Thurs. The wife of Motion Picture Chairman of the General Federation of Women's Clubs said Rita Hayworth's future films should be boycotted. *J don't th'nk that in view of her affair with Aly Khan she should \>e allowed to go on making films," Mrs.
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    SOCIETY MAN
    32 8 Two Hokkiens were arrested by the C.I.D. last night. One man is believed to be a secret society member. The other was arrested in connection with running a chap-ji-ki lottery.
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    Montors Guilty On Five Charges
    237 8 JyJONTOR LTD. and its director, William Vincent Saussotte, pleaded guilty to one charge, were found guilty on four, and acquitted on two, out of seven further charges under the Finance Regulation* yesterday. The charges were divided into three groups and tried separately. The first group
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    Shakespeare Packed The House
    68 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The Little Theatre >n Armenian street cleared an aii-tirm record at its boxoffice last night. Forty people had lo bt turned r.way irom the performance of bnakespeare's Coined} oi Errors" by the Little Theatre Players. "We took just over $20U. a record tor
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    Rest house manager, waiter win appeal
    207 8 JJOLDING that there was no re-sale of beer at the Bedok Rest House by the Rest House waiter to the two Revenue Officers, the Acting Chief yesterday allowed the appeal of the managing partner, Lim Kiat Hean, and the waiter, Han l°ok Juan. Lim
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    Hire To Be Tried On Wednesday
    110 8 THE case against Carlton Arthur Hire. Singapore businessman charged by the Dutch with illegal importation of arms into N.E.I, territory, will open at Tanjong Pinang on lan. 19 but the defence witnesses will not appear until a week later. Hire was arrested at Airabu
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    THAIPUSAM TOMORROW
    84 8 Hindus all over Malaya will observe the Thaipusam festival tomorrow. The day is sacred to the worship of the deity Sri Subramaniar. The festival is celebrated here at the Chettiar temple in Tank Road where thousands of poor people will be fed at the expense of the Chettiar
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    POPE PLEADS FOR THOSE IN EXILE
    99 8 VATICAN CITY. Thurs. Pope Plus today exhorted the Catholic clergy of the United States to redouble their efforts to obtain admission to America not only "for refugees torn from their kin. but also for their families and exiled priests." In a letter in Latin
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    Compensation For Terror Victims
    189 8 VKW regulations gazetted yesterday provide for compensation to be paid to civilians or their dependants who are killed or injured by terrorists or as a result of the present emergency. The limits for compensation follow the scale laid down under the workmen's compensation enactment. Compensation for
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    The War In Indonesia
    40 8 A DUTCH soldier relaxes as an informal guard is placed over this temporary supply depot neur Jogjakarta. BeaaritfMaa capital aataai by the Dutch. His companion, rear, is cheeking on "niperas niop-up operations o;ilinue against Mattered .•«••.istanee.
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    More Fly By BOAC
    128 8 (Tribune Staff BHparfai I NEARLY 120.000 pMK"ge;s ticw over the 15U ddnfttes (.1 route* ttrstctttaa from Montreal to Sydney 1" Br:t sh Overseas Airways Corporation aircraft during |ajg year, it was stated in Singapore yesterday. This represented an increasy over 1947 of 22.2 per cent Tile
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    King Of Escapers Gets A Big Job
    211 8 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs--Air Vice-Marsha! Sit Basil Emery who served in India from IJ3I to 1938. has been appointed Air Officer Commanding in Chief of the Royal Air Forre's Fighter Command, the Air Ministry announced Now 46, Air Vice-Marshal Emery who is known in
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    LANA TURNER HAVING BABY
    42 8 U.P. NEW YORK. Thursday. Lana Turner film actress wife of millionaire Henry J. Topping, j was in Doctors Hospital today tor what hospital authorities 1 described as a "routine checkup." Mrs. Topping is expecting a baby—U.P. 8 i
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    Refugees Will Recover Their Losses
    136 8 A.P. KARACHI, Thurs. "Complete agtec merit" has been reached between India and Pakistan on the disposal and transfer of property left behind oy rvbcuees in the mass exodus of Hindus from Pakistan and Muslims from India last year. Delegite.< from India and Pakistan hjve been
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    TONGKANG SINKS OFF SUMATRA — 9 MISSING
    162 8 TONGKANG SINKS OFF SUMATRA 9 MISSING ivviti? PENANG, Thursday The remaining nine members of the creu were ast seen ehngrag to empty oildrmns floating in Z or Penang carry.ng of ,3 £g ■rs. Du t no passeng- Thtee days out at sea the ink ran into a storm. She nanjr
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    Shaw Film Hearing to Be Resumed
    103 8 REPUBLIC Pictures Interm national Corporation's action against Mr. R un Run Shaw and Mr. Runme Shaw will resume hearing i n the 5^f a P 5 ore Supreme Court on tion h <'rn Cti °V S fof M m3™CdSt, r Btrain thC defen<iants, trading
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    General WHAT'S ON TODAY
    100 8 V.W.CA. Pioneers' me* 8, Fort Cani»>n& Road, 1 p W E S L E V METHOD!V! YOUTH FELLOWSHIP: d, votional meeting. 4 Fort Canning Road—7.30 p :n. PAY A UEBAB H.1 I.: At Home and installation of net for 1949. 7, Boundary —8 p.m. Y.M.C.A.: Opening
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    Cinema
    233 8 CATHAY: "Julia Mis!* haves," with Greer Gat on and Walter Pidgeon—1.40, 1.15, 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. ALHAMBRA: "Undersea Kingdom" (serial» with Kav "Crash" Corrigan—1.30, 5.3<) and 9 p.m. CAPITOL: "Tap Roots" <in technicolour) with Van Hcrtin and Susan Hayward—1.45. i, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. REX: "The Man from Ch«
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    Sport
    39 8 HOCKEY: Singapore v. Jo.lorc —S.C.C., 5 p.m.; SRC. 'A v. R.A.F. (Malay) Ketrt —S.R.C.; B.O.D. v. SiL r Regt.—St. George's Rd.: Spore Colts v. RAF. Seletar —Seletar; S.C.R.C. v. Cable wireless—S.C.R.C.; Khalsa Assn. v. Y.M.C.A. Farr- r Park.
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