Malaya Tribune, 2 February 1949

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  • 63 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Piipcr in Malaya. Printed Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penuny. Tele </rams. Tribune Spore." Telephone: SXII (9 lines). EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice Glover, c/a
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  • 58 1 STOP PRESS ri IPING, Taes. 'he ■nncMMHi! joiai .-o.nimt ie 1« nil.- Peiaiag has keen laI. or.)posed of IOW (..inmietM s n»d three NaHaaalHtfti the Coin.niltce will m'• I'eiping during a transition peried. I hi- |»r< siding niTieer at the foruuM instaUattea was <;>nrrei lea <
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  • 74 1 OTA TIBiGGI today: r»Mrr trapped and captured Tun K<>\\, •"><> year-old bandit agent, at Mawal yeal rdav. Th'- trap «ns set h\ .1 Chinese shopkeeper, who wis the •peat's latent victim. •hisj In-fore his arrest Tan h<>,\ IoM tie shopke"o<T he uhn :> bandit agent and de■■■drii
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  • 89 1 Reuter. \1\IJU\X lui's.— -«nbr ttmlh of r«> >l*»n\tin l»tfHan I 'Mrjjrest. «•••«I iiidi*v lh»»t lri»ut'V ill ua*. uim ilii»* In i «KlliiunMH luil 'ti Ifl»* r. iMlitiotl 'riir il t<n "itntlittitiirnilir |»ri*vlf»li"» nit'l iimmiIi>(:i<'l<ir> 1'fiinoinli" >fiill||ims '!'!»<■ I'lltMl'-Onill'. ttrfr j; ||ii* *«if «iikl'i ft t" .chii'u
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  • 42 1 A.P. LONDON', Tuesday. Kuala Lumpur journalist C. Rasiah, J*o ha-: been working on Brian aewspapera foi the past 11 months under Colonial Office will speak on "Briwj Jouraalisnr over the Briww Broadcasting Corporation's 'rseaa Service later this week. a.P.
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  • 346 1 Will Join Atlantic Pact U.P. QSLO, lues.—Norway defiantly told Russia tonight that it wants to join a North Atlantic defonce alliance to obtain "increased security." At the same time Norway assured the Soviet Union that Norway would support a policy of non-aggression and would not agree to
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  • 41 1 Reuter. Ducssc'dort. Tuesday. Max l~imaon. the 'Vest German :o m munist leader, was sentenced to th.cc months imprisonment* here today while i crowd outside the court sang •the Internationale" and shout ■d: "Long live Reimann Down with the Quislings."Reuter.
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  • 20 1 U.P. LONDON, Tues. Supply Minister George Straussc hinted today that Britain may "some day" nationalize the motorcar industry. —U.P.
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  • 137 1 U.P. NANKING. Tuesday. It was learned authoritatively tonight that Acting President Li Tsungjen, in a double-barrelled move to check anti-peace activities, had instructed Sun Fo' 9 cabinet to return to Nanking and demanded an explanation from Hsue Hyueh. governor of Kwangtung, for his public
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  • 44 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Tues. The Chinese Embassy, denying today a report from Hong Kong, said Madame Chiang Kai-shek was in New York. The Hong Kong report quoted people ariiving there from Australia as saying Madame Chiang was in Sydney.—Reuter.
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  • 39 1 The Governor-GeiK'-a'. Mr. Malcolm Mac-Donald wearing at the tea-party in Raffle* Hotel given by the Muslim <-onimunity of Singapore in celebration of Federation :md in honour of the officer* and «.i *n of the I'aHtttan triirnV. "Zuliakir."
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  • 119 1 Reuter. J LONDON. Tues. Prime j Minister Clenwmt Attlee raa* i appointed Mr. Lewis John F! II wards. Parliamentary SecireI tary of the Ministry of Health, ito be Parliamentary Secretary I to the Board of Trade, in sue- cession to Mr. John Belcher in I a junior
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  • 47 1 The Governor of the Colony of Singapore and the High Commissioner of the Federation of Malaya have appointed Mr. F. J. Kemlo to be a member of the Board of Management of the War Risks (Goodkd Insurance Fund in place of Mr. L G. Sa'mond.
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  • 107 1 Reuter. RHODES, Tues.—Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting Palestine mediator, said here today he had "fully discussed" his new secret peace plan with Israeli delegates but did not know yet the Egyptian attitude to it. The Israeli delegation gave Dr. Bunche a series of amendments to the plan
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  • 242 1 BATAVIA, Tues.—Federalist leaders in Indonesia who will discuss tomorrow the setting up of an interim federal government may concede the chief demands by Dr. Soekarno and Dr. Hatta. are that Republican leadeis. now aeld by the Dutch should be :c-leased and treated as the
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  • 30 1 A.P. KARACHI. Tues. Pakistan and India have accepted Britain's proposal to resume auctions in London instead A the present bulk purchase system, it was learned in Karachi today.—A.P.
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  • 133 1 Reuter. LONDON. Tues. -The British Government is studying Ceylon's rubber industry- believed threatened with 200,000 unemployed and partial collapse unless a Government subsidy ol 10 cents a pound weight Is forthcoming very soon- it was learned in London tonight. The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations,
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  • 48 1 Reuter. I THE, HAGUE. Tues. A KLM Royal Dutch airliner spokesman said today that "restricted passenger bookings from Amsterdam to Batavia" were again possible. Two KLM machines would leave for Batavia. one on Friday and one next Tuesday. Their route has not yet been fixed. —Reuter.
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  • 230 1 Reuter. PARIS, Tues.—A p!»n 'or an Asian trade —t HI conference to meet in Communistheld Peiping, North China, early in May was re •ommended to the Executive Committer of the World Federation of Trade Unions h-re t;>day. The conference noiild be open to all
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  • 112 1 Reuter. LONDON. Tues.—Speeches by Lord Mountbatten while Britain's last Viceroy of India are to be published in book form in April by a new London publisher, Nicholas Kaye. The about 300-page book, bound In buckram, wll be sold at 21 shillings. It will include eight photograhic prints
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  • 248 1 Arms From U.K. Help U.P. RANGOON, Tues.—Premier Thakin Nu opened Parliament today with a pledge that the insurgents in Burma will be tracked down and prosecuted vigorously regardless of race or creed. Tha an Nu 93*\ that now his government h-.d Biitish suoolics. sruts and
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  • 127 1 Reuter. RANGOON. Ti >-;day. Six people were Killed and several injured when Government troops, fighting a country- wide uprising by Kf?ien tribes men. fired in. i Karen quarters in a western suburb of Rangoon last Bight, it was -eported today. About 60 houses were burned
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  • 49 1 Reuter. London. Tues.'ay. A new shipping company s» onsored by the Indian Government, the Indian Ocean and Eastern Navigation Company. Limited, is to be registered in the next few days for the' trade between India. Australia. Cuina. Japan, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.- Reuter.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 484 2 Reuter. MANILA, Tues. Strong opposition to the Manila city government's proposal to levy a tax of one centavo (one half cent) on each litre of gasoline sold in the city has developed as the municipal board started its hearings to sound out the views of
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  • 109 2 Reuter. COLOMBO, Tues-Letters i from Ceylon will reach Britain jin little more than a day as a I result of the decision of the I Ceylon postal authorities to I send air mail on certain days iof the week by Air-Indian In- ternational. Mails on Mondays
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  • 75 2 A.P. HOLLYWOOD, Tues.—lrish actor Barry Fitzgerald will stay on Paramount studio payrolls for another year—the fifth in a run. He has Just completed costarring with Ring Crosby in "Top O" The Morning." his third movie with Crosby. Others were "Going My Way" and "Welcome Stranger."
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  • 282 2 U.P. LONDON, Tues.—A theory that the earth loosely surrounds its core and has slipped several times in the past tens of millions of years was being studied today by physicists. The so-called Core Theory was propounded by a New Zealand Scientist H. Manley, who
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  • 40 2 A.P. NEW YORK, Tues. Ben Wilkinson, well-known British advertising executive, has been elected managing director of of McCann-Erickson Advertising Ltd., London, effective February Ist. He succeeds Noel Godber, who has headed the London office of McCann-Erick-son. —A.P. 1
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  • 207 2 Reuter. Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday.— Liquid hydrogen could now send a rocket to Ihe moon at a speed of 30,000 mile.s an hour. Ohio State University has lifted a corner of the veil of secrecy surrounding its rocket fuel research to announce that the
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  • 193 2 U.P. CANBERRA, Tues —Rising European buying boosted Australian wool exports for the five months to November last to 403,840,000 lbs. while exports to America dropped more than a third against the same period a year earlier. Acting Commonwealth Sta tistician S. R. Carver revealed that
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  • 121 2 MADRID, Tues.- Uranium deposits in Andaluscia amounting to 850 tons of pure metal rank Spain fifth among nations possessing uranium, Spanish scientists claim. The official newspaper of the Falange party, Arriba, quoting the annual of the Government Institute of Geology and Mines, said uranium oxide ores
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  • 72 2 A.P. SCHENECTADY. New York. Tues—The General Electric Company says it will supply propulsion equipment for 20 new "super-tankers" and auxiliary power equipment for j 25 other ships being built as part of the U.S. tanker con- I struction programme. The Company said it was building
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  • 66 2 A.P. LONDON. Tues. British coal miners missed their production target for 1948 I y less .nan 3,000.000 tons, the Ministry of Fuel announced. Coal production for tP.fc year *as 208.418.500 tons, r* 98.7 pe r cent of the 211.CC0.--000 tons target. Out-put wa* 11,673.000
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  • 130 2 A.P. HOLLYWOOD, Tues. Moviegoers who are weary of watching 30 and 40-year-old actresses enact the part of young love on the screen have found a vociferous champion in producer Stanley Kramer. "Box Office would leap 15 per cent if romance on the screen reverted to
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  • 56 2 A.P. WASHINGTON, Tues.—The U.S. Army said General D aglas Mac Arthur placed business newcomers to Japan on equa; tooting with tiij-< i here .since the surrender. Th< Army said the v* v. rules "broaden the scope > f business activities permttUi! foreigners and aUiha limited inves
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 348 2 ON VOI R RADIO TODAY BLUE NETWORK MALAY PROGRAMMES. Peiping Opera; 1.00 News Opening Annct. and Prog. English PRnpßAMvnrc i9no r> in Mandarin Cantonese and Summ. in Tamil with Signainw ,5? E f, 012 00 p m Programme Amov; 1.15 Close Down. ture Tune 117 Recorded Broadcastl3oo 5.00 p.m. Sign.
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  • 408 3 Sir Henry Gurney, the Federation Hien Commissioner, broadcasting last night on the occasion of the Federation anniversary assured the people of Penang that the Government was trying to remove some of their grievances He said that this could be done without altering the constitution. B
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  • 32 3 A.P. I Lc:idon, Tues-•.•■v. A lady's j shoe of the futu with ninej inch heels was s invD to startled visitois at the London Shoo and Leather Fail luesdav. A.P.
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  • 122 3 DIFFERENCES of opinion and dissatisfaction with the College Council were not !,sponsible for recent resignations from Managing Committee ot the Rattles College I'nion. the Presides! of th»- I'nion. Mi. S. Thiruchclvarn said yesterdi The resignations, lie said. W«n due to pressure of work preventing
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  • 54 3 A.P. rOKONTO, Canada, Tues. Barbara Ann Scott of Ottawa, Olympic figure skatir.* chan pion who has turned IttOtes&ionaL today was nan.--t-d winner of the Louis X Marsh Memorial Trophy as Canada's most outstanding sport:, compttitor of 1948. It was the third time she wjn trophy, open
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  • 122 3 THE Commissioner General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. said yeaterday that the Federation of Malaya would endure and bring increasing benefits not only io the Malr.ys, but to the Malayan Chinese, Malayan Indians and others in the country. He was speaking at a tea party at
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  • 142 3 JHE Sumatra relief commit tee formed by the Singapore Overseas Chinese Importers Exporters Association has petitioned the Colonial Secretary to revoke the decision of the Immigration authorities to disallow entry into the Colony of 241 Sumatra Chinese from Tanjong Pinang. The Chinese are refugees from
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  • 129 3 A.P. WASHINGTON. Tues.- Government officials today were sceptical regarding a claim by an aircraft company official that an experimental plane, the X-l, had reached a height of 80.000 feet and had down at 700 miles an hour Lawrence Bell of the Bell Aircraft Company
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  • 70 3 A.P. SAN SALVADOR E] batvador Tues. The newspap..Dr. rribuha published a n.> patch from Managua ssyvig Nicaragua's economy is b-.ii.; menaced by a lack 01 foreign exch-inge. Th. dispatch said L. ?th have dried up to such an < tenr they no longer ca»i h found even
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  • 40 3 A.P. Tel Aviv. Tuescay. An allCivil administration has bprSjJ reintroduced in the Jewish part; of Jerusalem, wl i the position I of Israel Military Governor has been abolished as from now according to an Israeli Cabinet decision. A.P.
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  • 101 3 A.P. I LONDON, Tues. Corporal Horace Jones the Kings flagman since Dec. 31, 1938, retired yesterday after 42 years in the Army. He has had the keeping of about 40 Royal Standards from the IS by 12 foot ceremonial one flown over Buckingham Palace on important j
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  • 96 3 Reuter-AAP BRISBANE. Tues. An offer from America for Dowborough, who has been standing this season at Waverley Stud. Harrhrville, has been rejected by Mr. A. Vogel. his owner. The amount offered was not disclosed, but it was stated to be substantial. It was stated that the offer was
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  • 100 3 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY. Tues. Encouraging the exchange of teamers between Australia and England is one of the primary objects of Mr. P H. B. Lyon, former headmaster of Rugby School, England, who Is on a two and a half months' visit to Australia Mr. Lyon said
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  • 25 3 Five hundred White Russian leaving Shanghai for Samar Island, aboard the >n iiiva Li... 1 1. 1% tptmwrrO* b» I •..,»„.r»..».,.i K*U>f Or^nnKatlna. \.V. I'iel...
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  • 318 3 A.P. MANILA, Tues.- Consul General Modesto Farolan urged his government to be -more keenly sensitive" to the needs of 60,000 Filipinos living in Hawaii. Farolan returned from two years at his post in Honolulu to resign fiom the consular service to manage a
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  • 145 3 A.P. BALTIMORE. Maryland. Tues.—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt says "the best way to combat Communism is by stricter laws', and the close watch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, i FBI i. Questioned at a press conference about the I.S. Hou<e of Representatives Un-American Activities
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  • 35 3 Reuter. Buenos Tuesday. 1 The Argentine Central Bank today temporarily discontinued granting of foiegn exchange for any purpose. The decision was taken on tho advice e< the newly eoosUtuced National Economic CoHBCtI. Reuter.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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    • 297 3 SCHOOLS LEARN CHINESE in the SlnI gapore Chinese Mandarin School. 122-126, Prinsep Street. Singapore. Explanations in English) New Class for late applicants commencing February 3rd, 1949. Mondays and Thursdays—s.3o p.m. to 7.00 p.m. Class Teacher, Mr. Y. C. Yang, B.A. Fee ISA per month. (T. 594) VACANCIES exist in the
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  • 506 4 MR. Walter Fletcher, Tory MP. and rubber merchant who is visiting Malaya this month, gives himself the task of dispersing the pink tipped clouds of official optimism. He declares roundly: "Malaya's economy is dangerously near a complete breakdown." Now this, of course, is just not true. To
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  • 1006 4  -  BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT DURBAN, S. AFRICA A GROWING sense of African nationalism combined with the economic exploitation of the African population by the Indian and ag- gravated by the Malan Government's plans for racial segregation is regarded by observers here as the
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  • 236 4 THE possibility of baking bread by means of infrared radiali< n nnd by hi°,'i frequency heating, is being investigated by the baking industry in Sydney, where inkers have approached the Byd ney County Council on the subject. Experimental work carried out in the United States of America,
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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    • 51 4 Announcement r O »™j BINOCULARS New Shipment Arrived. Full Range Available. SELECI YOURS NOW Leas 5% Discount For Cash. New China Optical Co. 71, High St., Spore, Phone 258G LOOSE LiA AND LEDGERS ffmmu&ate Veicoety SJI 1 SINOAPORfc lllliiHl II I 6480 ALSO AT HUALA LUMPUR t PC NAH G
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  • 340 5 SYDNEY, lues.—Some British and European migrants have had dear and unhappy sea trips to Australia. Complaints have come mostly from people who travelled in ships from ports in Europe and the Middle East. These people paid their own fares. They made the move across the
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  • 66 5 A.P. SA N FRANCISCO, Tues. -L. M. Giannint, president of the Banh of America, the largest Bank m the world, sees no depression coming as long as Government expenditures in the United States remain high. He told stockholders that some consumer industries will undoubtedly operate at less
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  • 160 5 A.P. LAUSANNE, Switzerland. Tues.—Lausanne parents arc wondering just how the arithmetic and reading lessons arc going in the schools here. It has just been discovered that the teachers in Lausanne, through an error, were paid almost double their legal pay during part of 1948 and
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  • 267 5 A.P. SECRETARY of Commeice Cornclio Balmaceda is offcting L r Ssl2.soo for a good formula to make cigarettes from Virginia leaf tobacco grown in the Philippines. He announced the prize in opening a drive to reduce imports of American cigarettes and revive the war-wrecked
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  • Article, Illustration
    57 5 Ross Hancock, left. mniMtjrrr oi a London theatre, .enuires that all the rootin' tt otin' tyro-gUJ shootin* London kid', cheek their weapons before seeing American Wild West movies. A seven-ye'ir-ohf CO vpoke hands over his si. ?otln' iron. Hancock mado the rule so the youngsters won't hurt
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  • 329 5 AP. HOLLYWOOD, Tues. Most of the serious hazards to life and limb in movie-making exist only in the minds of the press agent. When the script actually does call for a risky scene, the star gets a double. There is one notable exception serials. Serial
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  • 363 5 HOLLYWOOD, Tuesday. JHBRK *S a new shop here that Ins Hollywood talking and working. The reason: its windows and shelves display, with price tags attached, such collectors items as a sweater knitted by Joan Crawford, and a collection of chicken-bone cigarette holders fashioned by character actor Harry
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  • 99 5 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, lues.—Pat- rick OXsary, an inmate j of the Liverpool, N.S.VV. O'd Men's Home, c'aims to be at least 108. He told officials at the J home when he arrived" j there in 1937, that he was born in Dublin in 1810. The officials said
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  • 61 5 AP. CINCINNATI. TUC*.—With in six months it will be :>i.ssible 10 walk into any au.-:--mob.le agency is the Unit°c. State, and buy any ca r d>. sired, says James D. Moor ry president of V/illys-Overlvid Moto.s "W have switched <o v buyers' market." he
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  • 52 5 A.P. New Delhi. T --day. Ine Indian Govern :nent tonight announced the suspension of communal class uistinctions in the recruitment and composition of the Indian Army. A statement said the Auny belonged to the i-f.ttre nation and that no distinction would be shown on the I asis of
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  • 165 5 A.P. ROME Tues.—Since 1938 the Italian cost of living has' increased 48 times. But guesses on weekly soccer pools and lotto—trie numbers game—increased 600 times. 20.000.000.000 <ab;ut. l!S$33.0O0.000) nl»'<"' year for a chance at the big money came from tne pine cd pockets of
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  • 43 5 A.P. MADRID. Tues. The Spanish merchant fleet has been built back almost to its precivil war strength during the past four years. According ro official statistics, the Spanish merchants marine includes 1.250 ships of all types, totalling 1.119,413 gross tons. A.P.
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  • 40 5 A.P. WASHINGTON, Tues.—The privately owned American merchant fleet consisted of 1,216 ocean-going ships of 1,000 gross tons and over on January Ist. compared to 1.003 such vessels a year ago, the National Federation of American Shipping reported. A.P.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 31 5 Vl€ FLINT— By Michael O'Malley and Kalph Lane 'v. <'NG6UZ EVERY BOPY A r? i^JlL^^f&JV rW v 6crrth* Vv LIVES Si i 'M, I HtfKJEBBSS W crr 1 I l 1,1
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  • 49 6 The North defeated the Son th by «7 points to 8 in the All Blues annnal rugger classic pUyed on the Padang on Monday. Above pictur* taken just before the match was scheduled to start. The South t earn are in white -Tribune Picture.
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  • 26 6 Bowlers wer? on top at Se-Uul on Monday when c'p.p Young Men's sikh Association, Kuala Lumpur beat the Ipoh Sikhs by five wickets
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  • 154 6 A.P. OW Tues -—Crack British football teams like Manchester United, Arsenal and Glasgow Rangers might like to know that it was the Russians who introduced into football tactics the quick inter changing of forwards in an attack. The newspaper "Soviet Sport" says that the
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  • 71 6 U.P. AJtOSA. SWITZERLAND, Tues. The Unite.! States amateur lee hockey team and the Arosa Ice Hockey f'hih tied 10 to 10 today In the first game in its Swiss tour for the Americans, who are headed for the world championships matches in Sweden later this month. The Americans
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  • 64 6 A .P. Vimtui, Tuesday. The chances of Aetna's Km Pawhk winniny the. world Jiyure skatino titlt at Paris lata this month huntj in the haisnee today. Doctors said that they >'H>uld deride hy Thursday tehethtr the Eurooean champion must untlerno an opetahtos jor appendicitis. She xran
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  • 20 6 J. Trovous and M. LasurgC of France driving a HotchkLs» from Lisbon won the Mor.te Carlo Rally.
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    51 7 A North player, in possession of the ball, is being brought down by n South player while another rushes up to snatch it from fci»n—an incident in the North versos South AU Blues rugger clayed on the padang on Mcnda>. North won by %1 pti. to B.— Tribune
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  • 303 7 /Tribune Staff Reporter J The 1948-49 hockey season was a record year for the Ce.vlone.se Sports Club XI. Out of 10 games played, they won eight successively, drew once and lost one—a truly magnificent record. Their achievement is all the more creditable considering
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  • 109 7 (Tribune. Stuff Reporter, A HOCKEY carnival to oe organised by the Singapore Hockey Association on Feb. tS witi mark the cUtse of the hockey season in the Colony. There will be a fancy dresa game on the S.R.C. padang. Each a filiated club of the Association will
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  • 109 7 Tho first post war and fifth annual athletic meet of the Tamil Brotherhood Association will be held on Friday, April 15, 1949. All members intending to take part are requested to submit their names and the events hey are going to participate to the Hon. General Secretary,
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  • 21 7 The Victoria School X will meet RAF., Jurong at soccer dt the Victoria School grounds it 5 p.m. today.
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  • 93 7 A.P. MOSCOW, Tues. Boya Kholshchevnikova has set a new women's skating record for 3,000 metres —5 minutes. 39 1 seconds, the newspaper Soviet Sport clamed Tuesday. "It was proved that she can beat world records wthoiut travelling to such foreign record factories as Davos, St. Moritz etc.*'
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  • 54 7 A.P. ADELAIDE, Tues. Frank Sedgman, who won the men's singles championship on Sunday, teamed with Doris Hart of the United States on Mon--lay to win the Australian mixed doubles title. Miss Hart, who earlier had won the women's singles crown, and Sedgman defeated John Bromwich
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  • 22 7 A Council meeting of the Singapore Chinese Footbi'l Association will be held at the Garden Club at 5.15 p.n: tomorrow.
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  • 99 7 A.P. MELBOURNE, Tues. —Th c Panamanian sprinter Lloyd La Beach disclosed today that he has asked a sports syndicate for £1,250 to turn professional and run in their meeting at Bendigo, Victoria, next month. His price. La Beach saM. was not accepted. He added that he
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  • 70 7 A.P. MELBOURNE, Tues.—Lloyd la Beach. Panamanian Olympic ace, defeated John Bartram of Australia and Herb McKenley of Jamaica to win the 220-yard dash in 21 4 10 seconds at tin Victorian championships on Monday. La beach failed to finish m the 100 meters and
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  • 54 7 I BADMINTON Y. M. C. A.. Orchard Road—s p.m. LAWN TENNIS: Y.W.C.A.. Orchard Road—s p.m. RUGBY: G.H.Q. Sig Regt. v. Police—Thompson it.: R.A.F. Changi v. Shell S.C.—Chanei; S.C.C. "A" v. S.H.B.** F.C.— S.C.C. HOCKEY: Khalsa Assn. v. Nee Soon H.C.—St. "eorge 1 Rd. C-in-C Naval Staff (men* i\
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  • 125 7 Mohan Beats Loveday A.P. BOSTON, Tues. INDIA'S Thomas Tup badminton team has defeated n l ulled Stales team 3—2 at the UnU versity Club. They combined rlnesae and speed to overcome the power style of the Americans. Th«' tour!»! Indian team was led by
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  • 44 7 Th ijjoh Sikh hockey tr-ien aiikdc JOiend-. fri r -t« d»* k i hy tli t St lnnnur Indian h. ogooib Uj nil oil th»* Kuu-'a gey Association t> y the helungu r Club, by '.w Luitfuur padj/ig on Moucav evening.
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  • 121 7 Reuter. ORLANDO, Florum, Tues. —Joe Louis will defend his world heavyweight ?il m June only if an opponent cau be found with sufficient "gate" appeal, John Foxborough, the adviser said tonight. Roxborough, following a weekend conference with Mike Jacobs, promoter of the 20th. Century
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  • 51 7 Th*» following will represent the Tamil Brotherhood Association at soccer agaliijthe iat Devonshire Regimei»'. at Farrer Park, on Friday, February 4. Sithambaram; s. Vek"; Tambyrajah; s. Mohinda Murdeesu; M. Chandra; O. Suppiah: Param; A. Vlj.areti'am; S. Chandra; M. I Osman; s. Muthiah; Sockslinga:n; Haron; T. Nadarajah and A
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  • 40 7 The Group 3 R.P.C. (C) avenged their previous defeat I at the hands of the Johore I Cricket Club by beating Uie Club four goals to nil in their j second hockey encounter at Johore Bahru on Monday.
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  • 357 7 Reuter. BULAWAYO, Tues.—A heavy rainstorm robbed the MCC touring team of victory in then* match here today against Rhodesia. The game ended in a draw. With about an hour and a half left for play the MCC required only 31 runs to win. but then
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  • 178 7 A.P. VIENNA, Tues. Skater Eva Pawlik, who finished second to Barbara Ann Scott so many times last winter, and succeeded in winning ihe women's title at Milan on Sunday, has high hopes of winning the world figure skating title in Paris on Feb. 11--13.
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  • 252 7 A.P. l By Barbam QormJy) SYDNEY, Tues. Fanny Dbmkers-Koen hast lifted Australian women's athletics out of the doldrums. She is drawing the biggest crow-is in the history of women's track and field games. The Flying Dwtclvwoman winner of four Olympic gold medals, arrived
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  • 110 7 (Tribune Staff Rcvorl*rj The following w... represent the South learn against thf North at hockey to l*t played at Kuabt Lumpur un Keb. Ill: R. Manuel (V'cfit Secnbftlaa); R. H. Rarth (('apt, Singapore; I'. K'tmnraaamy (Negri S-mMlan i; llaxJd bin llltber (Segrt MmoMhanl; l>r. Dehrnn
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  • 26 7 FRANCISCO. Tues.~ Rugged Enrice Bertola. Italian heavy weight champion, won a rough ten-round sMlt decision ove r Ray Stevens v>t California, in San Francisco
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  • 201 7 MALAY AN CUP TEAM (Prom TEOH 8ENQ KHOON. Tribune Sta« importer mmbtt of Hk Malayan Tbomnn Cup Tnua. I The*.—This Ik po S.O.8. to you out them in Malaya to send a* tetter*, letter» and yet more letter?. We are a news hungry crowd
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  • 75 7 A.P. LONDON, Tue* —Wcmhley Stadluiu, arena ut Inst summer's Olympic fiauii'd. o (vised holders of 2.000,000 cne-stiil-itng ahare* that their dividend 10 40 per cent —half that of 1947. Profils went down from £113.136. to 153.706 Oapt, Brice. a director, said the betting tax was
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  • 302 8 N.E.A. NEWARK, N.J.. Tues. One of these days Bruce Thompson's parents are going to hear their eight-month-old son make a lot of noise, and even If it wakes them up in the middle of the night, they'll he us pleased as any parents can
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  • 32 8 A.P. OTTAWA, Tues. Define Minister Brook Claxton has announced that the new Canadian destroyer 'Crescent' will be sent la the Far East for use in event of an emergency.—A.P.
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  • 120 8 CHICAGO. Tues. Milkman Erik Gunnar Seaburg was today ready to fly to Denmark and collect part of the $600,000 left him by an aunt he never met. Seaburg, 58, said Copenhagen attorneys told him to attend a meeting of Mrs. Hedy Hansen's heirs on February 18
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  • 312 8 Troops Well Behaved U.P. PEIPING, Tues. THIS old capital's first full day of Communist 1 occupation passed without disorder. All day fresh detachments of Red peace preservation troops entered from north, east and south and moved through the streets rapidly and in an orderly
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  • 167 8 U.P. BELGRADE, Tues. Tuberculosis has reached epidemic proportions in Europe with more than 100 dying daily in some countries, it was disclosed today. Dr. Paul Andresen, head of the Danish Rett Cross team combatting tuberculosis in Yugoslavia released figures showing that at least 130 persons are
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  • 36 8 Reuter. RIPON. Massachusetts, Toes Six people. Including a lormei college and professional foot ball olayer, were missing ami presumed dead tod iv In a fire which destroyed the Grand View Hotel here. —Reuter.
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  • 274 8 A.P. VIRGINIA WATER, England, Tues.—Queen Rambhai Barni of Siam, widow of King Prajadhipok, disclosed today that she will return to Siam after almost 10 years' residence in England. -My family and my good friends have asked me to return,'' she
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  • 95 8 Th. Governm< at of Singapore will invite tenders for an issue of SIO.tMO.OOO oy Treasury Cilia nn February 10 subject to the general conditions governing the issue and repayment of Colony of Singapore Trea »try Dills. Copies of the con dl tion together with forms of
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  • 130 8 U.P. PORTLAND, Ore?* >. I Tties.-Little "S;»»v.bir 1". I the baby born in the MWi was repor<««d to be doing ah r ight in the Portland ll—Plt»i rrn 1 J Sanitoriiim today and s.> was his mother, .Mrs. a William Stafford, ir She gave bi-th ti»
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  • 180 8 THE C-in-C Air Command Fai East, Air Marshal Sir Hugh Liovd. has just received from the Chief of the Ah Staff, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder, the following me:; -age concerning Lord Tedder*! recent vibit to Germany: While I have been away a"giety regarding
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  • 367 8 I Tribune Staff Raportert ALMOST one-third of patients in Singapore hospitals are there because of neglected wounds or trad treatment in sickness. Colonel Sir James Sleeman, Chief Comnussionor of St. John's Ambulance Brigade Overseas, told a Press Conference yesterday. Illustrating thus view further
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  • 36 8 TWO horses used by the Nationalist troops bc.ny lifted aboard a transport at Bosey wharf in Shanghai recently. Dock officuils sa.nt that the troops were enrtmte to Canton. A.P. Picture. A.P. Picture
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  • 91 8 TELUK ANSON. Tues. Ii mttta sabotaged the railway lines near Sungkai yesterday night. They stole the signal lights and removed a bolt from the fishplates on the line. Several bolts were also loosened. The security forces arc investigating the sabotage attempt. At Sungei Kuning Village in the
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  • 149 8 SEGAMAT Tues.—For the second day in buc cession R A.F. Spitfires from Singapore raided a sufpected terrorist area near here today and swept it v ith heavy cannon and machine gun fire^ The air strike was made m support ot set forces which had surrounded the
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  • 104 8 U.P. Louis, [tttaotm Tuesday. The Rock Junic High School closed down bete today when about 100 white pupils walk- d out of their classes when they learned th.n Negrc children* were la the building ■.'.tempting to oinoil. Ten Negro children accompanied by adults walked into
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  • 35 8 LONDON. Tues. One hundicd London "chars" (women cleaners) nourishing mops ano duster bags marched througl London streets today in a most touching wage demonstration the capital has seen for a long time.
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  • 235 8 A.P. PARIS, Tues.—Prince Aly Khan's wife will allege in her divorce action that he "seriously insulted" her by announcing his desire to marry Rita Hayworth, the Princess' lawyer announced today. The lawyer, Jean E. Rapoport, said that the papers in the case will
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  • 158 8 Reuter. LONDON. Tues. Fines rugtofj from live to 10 Shillings wore imposed by a magistrate today on five moo arrested last night during demonstrations outside Kensington, West London, Town Hall where Sir Oswald Mosley. the "Union Movement" and prewar Fascist leader, was speaking. A sixth, 25-year-old
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  • 43 8 A.P. Berlin, Tucsdn> The Bri-tish-licensed newspaper, Der Tag. repotted T Ues day that the Russians had arre&ted six Gernans on charges of sabotage in connection with a factory explosion last week at Wittenberg Saxony. The killed four workers and injured 24. A.P.
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  • 123 8 TV" pitched b' fougn' betww i oand'U in the of stgamat Estate British corpora wounded in or.i ties. The bandit, four casual'ins. After the batt dits were dislodged camps were destroyi I. communist Jcjcumcnta rice, and 20 twclv< tridges were seize! of the camps. The British co
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  • 64 8 Y.M.C.A., Orchard R j-luh— 6 p.m. Lecture on 0* ent Events" by Mr. G rhomson. Public R chief—6.30 p.m. Smirapor? Chess Championship and Lz Boon Keng Cup compct,t;on>5 p.m. GENERAL HOSPITAL: uco-Pathological meeting I Singapore Branch of Association of Kinp Edma VII College of Medicine. Dert
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  • 147 8 CATHAV Wllh Yon" mm I with Iflsihor W»11 t»M Luvvford, lUcanlo M«»h' 1 JimmV DuranU*! v 1 r iod Xavtcr Cup;»t -1 1 and p.m VLHAMBRA: 'On A». Vlth You Un 'T ith Esther WMlioiii Ricardo 1 '♦mtnv Durante, C M *-d XavU-r Cur.i- Llfi and 9.30 p.m (AMTOI,:
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