Malaya Tribune, 28 February 1949

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    67 1 MALAYA Tribune F "••BY THJi /PEOPLE FOR THE i PEOPLE i **Iel: "Tribune, B'pore." Larger Sale* Than Any Afternoon Paper In Malaya Phone: 8811/8 Nino Umea Published itmultaneoutly at St ngaporf, Zuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Pmuing. EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, 4 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE
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    Bangkok Airport Closed
    84 1 STOP PRESS UP. .»*11 Today. A Ian Airway» r'u.pHr, i A" 1 Manila on Sunday ,r Bangkok, turned *"?"Mer r.aehing Saigon, l ta i,,.- a radio report fop;;."»»j yfc.'.'T'.'jaai.. II. I»- N"« ,n FL i thai w,lirl pr a. B,...kok, liHVV I tl>. ifasS«*i»g«T»t of r, \V»"«
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    Missing Men Were Murdered
    56 1 U 'u'as I. ariusl-tonight that th thref British pflieials of t h, Hfritisf .tirnf .rt'Jessops and Company, previously rep,>rtei> missing, tdied in yesterday's raid pn thf. tirm s f wiiiis*"». r'. %dtIt >vas understood v their jarred remains to* refV vt red froin the *j tyl
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    Bandit Killed
    80 1 f 1 AT. Today -TV .party anil a of six terrorists, including a woman, yestrrday afternoon resulted in the death of a noti riuti. North Johore bandit leader from whose body was recovered a .32 revolver and important iloeuments. He has »u-en identified a* Teo xuan Ying, a
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    Thomas Cuppers Get Reward
    68 1 A Malaya's gift to our victori- %\is Thomas Cuppers is a holidf x trip in Switzerland. This w*. revealed by Secretary (Lee Guan Rye) of the Badinint'oBtAssociatton of Malaya who has fabled the cup captam Lini .Chuan Geok anLx>t >VKing4hat permission ha* •yen by the Standing
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    untitled Driver untitled Dead, Big Reward
    64 1 Single CXD. is offering a "ward »f *1.000 for informatlon leading to the arres of the persons responsib e for no death of a taxi-driver named Lou Tai, whose bod> was found in a dram at 51* on Saturday mornin?r h e dead man's
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    U.K. CONCERNED OVER SIAM CRISIS
    337 1 A rtny Na vy Fight It Out In Bangkok Reuter. I ONDON, Sunday.—Reports of serious unrest lj in Bangkok, the Siamese capital, are causing great concern in London. The trouble, which broke out last night in Bangkok followed measures taken a few days ago by
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    Mr. Cheong Hock Chye Dies
    93 1 A popular figure in pub he life and in the business world. Mi. Cheong Hock Chye. J.P.. passed away yesterday mormng after a short illness at his rtsi dence in Brighton Road. By niofession. an auctioneer the late Mr. Cheong had also been a member
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    EVATT IN DELHI
    48 1 Ei T i»* T T new DELHI, Sun.-Dr H. V Evatt, the Australian Minister of External Affairs Mr Malcolm MacDonald, \Sgh Commissioner for South i TT-ict Asia arrived in Mew pel hi tonight from Calcutta for the informa? conference on Burma which opens here tomorrow.
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    MALAYAN THOMAS CUPPERS FETED
    55 1 Picture taken at the official ball held at the Palace Hotel, Torquay, after the international badminton match between the Malayan Thomas Cup team and England. Left to right: The Deouty Ma\or of Torquay, Wong Peng Soon, Llm Chuan Geok, Miss Lilian Lim, the Deputy Mayoress of
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    Twelve die in Bengal Riots
    270 1 Reuter. CALCUTTA, Sunday.-West Bengal police were oat on one of the biggest terroristjnanwls in recent tin** tbd&y m noUn* flared up S resulting in the death of 12 oeople and injury to nine. First reports said today rioting was confined to a about 10 Calcutta
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    33 ARRESTS
    27 1 There were 33 arrests in the Federation during the past 24 hours: 15 in Trengganu; 12 :'n Perak; 5 in Selangor and 1 in Penang
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    PROF. WU RE-ENTERS HONGKONG
    75 1 A.P. HONGKONG. Sun. Professor Wu Hu-hao. leader of the unofficial Chinese peace delegation from Canton, has returned to Hongkong aftei a one-day "enforced ah- senee. The Chinese press said Wu returned as a "merchant." The China Mail said on Thursday he had been es- corted by
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    FREIGHTER AGROUND
    48 1 A.P. SE \TTLE, Today. The \nieriean Mail Line, Washington Mail, outbound to the Orient with M passengers ran aground in dense fog on Morrowlstone Island yesterday, in upper h«IM«A The Master of this 7,b»uton passengers-freighter reported by radio that his ship was apparently not damaged. —VP.
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    Attack Begun
    22 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Today. A large operation started this morning on the KedahSiam border. No further details are available at pr-sent.
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    SIR FRANKLIN CABLES HIS CONGRATS
    83 1 The Governor ot Singaoore. Sir Franklin Gimson, and the High Commissioner for the Federation, Sir Henry Guinev were among the thousands of sports enthusiasts who were jubilant over Malaya's win in the final of the Thomas Cup competition. Sir Franklin sent a telegram to the
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    SHAW WINS CASE
    34 1 An application for a writ of attachment for contempt of court against Run Run Shaw and Runme Shaw trading as the Eastern Film Agency, was dismissed by Mr. Justice Gordon-smith today.
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    Sun Fo Arrives In Nanking Today
    157 1 Reuter. CANTON Sunday.—The Chinese Premier Dr. Sun Fo. Will fly to Nanktag tomorrow to discuss Deace negotiations with Acting President Li S TsunK and other Government leaders While in Nanking he win also report to the Legislative Yuan. It is predicted that he will
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    CABINET DISOLVED
    19 1 A.P. CAIRO, Sun—King Farouk of Egypt tonight dissolved the Cabinet of Prime Minister Abdel Hadi Pasha. A.P.
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    REDS MUZZLE THE PRESS
    79 1 Reuter. NANKING. Sun. Com-munist-controlled North Shensi radio confirmed tonight that all foreign correspondents, agencies and newspapers in Peiping had been ordered to discontinue their activities. Foreign newspapers have also been banned in the city, the radio added. The order was made by Gen. Yeh Chien-ying, Communis
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    M.C.A. Is Formed FIRST STEP TO CREATE BETTER UNDERSTANDING
    471 1 M.C.A. Is Formed (Tribune Staff Reporter) KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. fHINESE delegates from various states and settlements of the Federation at a meeting held here today approved the formation of a Malayan Chinese Association. Fundamental objectives of the organization are to bring
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    TAN TELLS CHINESE BE LOYAL TO MALAYA
    162 1 The Chinese in Malaya must unite not only among themselves, but with the Malays and other communities, to make this land one nation ami the object of their loyalty, love and devotion, said Mr. Tan Cheng Lock in his inaugural address as Chairman
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    UK PLANS AHEAD TO HALT REDS
    388 2 A.P. LONDON, Sunday. DKITAIN is planning a new study of her role in Asia in relation to the shifts in the local and global power balance brought about by the onward rush of the Chinese Communists. The neu ly assigned permanent head of the
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    Hongkong volunteers near 2,000
    99 2 Hongkong volunteers near 2, 000 Reuter-AAP. HONOKONG. Sun. Registrations tor the colony's voluntary defence force have now reached nearly 2.000. Slightly mere than naif of ;his num'ner have registered for the Hong Kong Regiment, for which the Government appealed for 1,000 men over the next six months. The lest registered
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    BATTLE OF GOURMETS
    49 2 A.P. SHANGHAI. Sun. -Two Chinese soldiers were shot seriously and another was wounded yesterday in a squabble over a pancake. While messing at an Army kitchen, they began arguing as to who would get the next pancake. They "settled* the by shooting it out.— A. P.
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    Television In A Furnace
    71 2 BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation television cameramen and techmrwrtfs took thtnr r tntipment into a /tor spot to televise white hot metal being poured at the famous Ford blast furnarcs at Dngenhnrh, Essex. Hvre the electron camera i-; seen an the left, while liquid mr.tal pouts dmr)i the
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    Busman's Holiday
    47 2 Mi. E. Narayanan, EditorV>f the Indian Socialist weekly "Janata," has arrived in Singapore from Bangkok. Mr. Narayanan is on a study tour of South East Asia and will be staying in the Colony till Friday. In Singapore he is meeting prominent Leaders and newspaper men.
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    ATTRIBUTES BLINDNESS CURE TO MIRACLE
    211 2 In May 1948 Mr. Tan Cheng Gun of Onan Road was told by an eye-specialist that he would be blind .vithin two years. All the private doctors and specialists he consulted said they could not cure him of his disease. Yesterday Mr. Tan. completely cured,
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    No Cold Feet For Dr. Beel
    69 2 f DRY PASSAGE Dr. Louis Beel, repr/---i tentative of the Dutch J Crown in Indonesia, be- ing carried from shore t to Ixxtt in order to keep J his Uet dry during a re- itnt tour of the Indo--1 nesian Archipelago, Dr. 1 Beel
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    Payment For Cable And Wireless
    88 2 A.P. LONDON. Sun. The British Government is to pay £35.250,--000 in compensation for the Cable and Wireless empirewide communications system, nationalised on Jan. 1. 1947. The amount was set by an I arbitration tribunal whose de--1 i-ision was published on Saturday The compensation will be
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    CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS
    107 2 A.P. MANCHESTER. Sun. A motor cyclist who crashed into a tramway standard at Manchester started a chain of accidents which ended his life and sent nine people to hospital. He was John Jones. 50. The ambulance carrying him away came into collision with a bus and the
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    THE ADMIRAL ARRIVES
    32 2 A.P. AMOY. Sun. Vice-Admiral Oscai C. Baugei. e.ommundet of the V. S. Western Pacific Fleet, arrived at Amoy on SatUrd&y form Tsingtao aboard the fi lgship E'.doiado. A. P.
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    YOUNG FARMERS' CLUB PROJECT HELD UP
    278 2 The Kampong Melayu Boys' Club's threc-month-old project to build a Young Farmers' Club in the Kampong Melayu area has been held up because of the lack of funds and a suitable site, Inche Saad bin Marsom, newly-appointed Secretary of the Boys' Club told the
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    RECRUITS WANTED
    38 2 The V.M.C.A. Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade has sent out an appeal for recruits to form a new first-aid class. A nursing division for women will a'so be started if sufficient public interest warrants.
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    SIX BANDITS KILLED
    563 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. -Six bandits were shot dead, more than seven wounded and two captuied by security forces operating in the various parts of the federation yesterday. One Sten gun, two shotguns and a handgrcnade were recovered frcm the dead bandits. In all these operations the security
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    SIAM REDS PLOTTED TO KILL GOVT. MEN
    137 3 BANGKOK, Sunday. Cabinet sources have given details of an alleged organized plot to assassinate key government officials including police chief Lt.Gen. Adal Aduldetcharat, member of the Regency Council, who was given a bodyguard. A police source saiu that it /a.-i definitely a Communist
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    U.K. CYCLE PRODUCTION TOUCHES PEAK
    79 3 LONDON. Sun Britain, world's largest exporter cl bicycles and motor-cycles, senl werseas. in January, machines *hose value exceeded £2.000.000 or the first time in one month This was an increase of alnost £500.000 on January, 1948 igurcs issued by the trade tolay stated. Most of
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    UK Loan to Burma?
    49 3 A.P. NEW DELHI. Sun. An informed source said in New Delhi on Saturday the question of a British loan to Burma was tlui ma lor reasor for the closed, informal conference opening in New Delhi on Monday between Britain. India, Pakistan. Ceylon and Australia —A.P.
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    Wife In Search Of A Husband
    266 3 U.P. NEW YORK. Sun.—Almost any girl can get a husbarvl if she takes a s'.ow boat to Haifa, Capetown or Malaya, according to Clara Lane. She said there was not any earthly reason why one million suiplus American girls should mourn the shortage of
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    S'PORE FIRM MAKES BULLET PROOF STEEL
    234 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. EXPERIMENTS on bullet proof steel by Mr. F. Baldwinson of the International Welding and Engineering Co., have proved successful. Samples of 1 Bth and 1 16th inch treated plates withstood the severest test carried out by the Singapore police, Mr. Baldwinson
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    DYAKS RETURN
    54 3 Twcnty-:» ne Dyak trackers witii the Army force in Malaya will he returning to their home fov a month's rest early in Morch. They arc to By from Kwa'a L-unpur to Sarawak. These men will return to Malaya at the end of the month's leave, with another "men
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    He Loved U.S., Not Wife
    56 3 U.P. SEATTLE. v vVashir.gton». Sam Mrs. Nellie Poldmets. 31» eras granted a divorce aftei s\ie told the judge her Estonian husband married' her to gair entry iuto the United States. She said Alfred Poldmet? ''thought Seattle was pait of Washington. DC, and was very dissatisfied
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    Aided Passage Scheme To Continue
    75 3 A.P. CANBERRA. Sim. The as sisted passages scheme for British immigration to Australia U to be extended for another twe years, the Immigration Ministei Arthur Calwc'l has announced This year there will )>,• assured passages for 45,750 British immigrants and next year the number will
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    20,000 'SLAVES' IN U.S.
    168 3 A.P. NEW YORK. Sun— Thousand; of Americans are being helrt under forced labour conditions, according to testimony before a Special Inquiry Commission here. Witnesses said virtual slavery exists among many southern sharecroppers, and that labourers in several areas are held in bondage by poor pay. usury
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    REVOLT IN IRAQ
    39 3 A.P. MOSCOW. Sun. Rebellion and disorders were reported by Pravda to have broken out in Iraq's northern Kurdish area.-. A Tarn news agency dispatch from Beirut, Lebanon, said disorders occurred alao in Baghdad, the capital. —A.P.
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    VICTORY WITH HONOUR
    586 4 THE Thomas Cup is ours, triumphantly so, 1 and without question Malaya leads the world in badminton. Our team alone of the Big Three, had two key matches to play in the short period of six days and won them handsomely; to have conquered in a land
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    MALAYAN CHINESE MUST WAKE UP AND UNITE!
    1423 4  -  By TA N CHENG LOCK NATIONAL .'mancipation and progress can only be won at the price of personal efforts and must be attained by definitely organized and can-fully conceited endeavour. Success needs to be achieved, it cannot be granted or eonferi cd. It
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    China's Refugees Find Refuge In Tubabao
    684 4 A.P. THIS green, little tropical island in Leyte Gulf is gaining a new population strange to the Pacific today. It is becoming a temporary home for 6,000 refugees from China. Three thousand have already reached Tubabao. They are displaced persons who once were nationals
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    The Axe Is Ringing In The Forests Of Kenya
    857 4  -  by Glanville le Sueur THERE is that in Kenya which answers the heart's cry for the things of the wild, for the forest glade, and the sweeping plain, and the hawk against the sky. There is something* fresh and proud in
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    Water Cycle
    261 4 THIRTY seven years'- old Kenneth Fores, of Woodend. N'ddrio Mill, Portobello, saw.- a Kirn man crossing the Channel on a contraption with a bicycle Irame. This gave him an idea that has resulted in his designing a machine to solve the problems which arise when the call of
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    S'PORE SHOPPING GUIDE & HOME HINTS
    1174 5 S'PORE SHOPPING GUIDE HOME HINTS (Tribune Staff Reporter) THE war against the high cost oi living is being won at Titapatrick'fl store in Orchard l')Ull Since the mruiager.w nt aunched Me new campaign to 'ower prices in most dep.-.rt-ments, many a graterul housewife has written in to say what a
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    26 5 Li'l Abner On p. 8 Owing to pressure on spare on this page, Li'l Ahner and Alley Oop have today been transferred to page X. M\
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    Arab Refugees Face Starvation, Cold
    419 5 MORE than 400,000 Arab refugees in the Arab ITI section of Palestine are today facing slow death by starvation and exposure to wintercold. If sufficient relief is not immediately available to help them tide over the dangers of current winter-months which will continue till late
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    AID TO EUROPE
    72 5 A.P. WASHINGTON, Sun —Western Europe will probably learn I officially this week how much aid in rearming can be expected tram the United States during the first year of the proposed North Atlantic security programme. Responsible officials indicate that Europeans will not get as much as they
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    LONDON PRESS HITS LOCAL SHARE MARKET
    874 6 (From A Market Correspondent) THE volume of exchange was maintained, but quotations in Malayan share markets show losses in all sections over the week. It could hardly have been otherwise in the face of the Press which Malaya has received in London. However necessary
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    Produce Market
    91 6 THE produce market was featureless on Saturday with little change in priqes, Little business passed during the day. Saturday's pi ices wen SAGO FLOUR: Lm>;ga S15 1 Sarawak $12.•. Siak $12',. SAGO SEED: $18. TAPIOCA FLOUR: Fair $20. FLAKE TAPIOCA: $30 MEDIUM PEARL: $31, TAPIOCA SEED: $31. WHITE
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    RUBBER MARKET
    60 6 THE rubber commodity market was quiet on Saturday with little interest in evidence Business was slow throughout the day. Closing price? were Buyers. Sellers. No. 1 Mar. RSS 3.V 4 35 No. 2 Mar. RSS 33 34 No. 3 Mar. RSS 32 33 On rcg. tender Mar. 35%
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    London On S. Africa's Trade Move
    72 6 LONDON. Sun. South Africa's decision to control her imports to preserve its sterling balance announced last week will have "little or no effect" on Great Britain's exports to the country, economists predicted on Friday. One source expected that the move was obviously merely a
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    AID SOUGHT FOR MANILA HEMP
    59 6 MANILA. Sun. The Philippines will seek United States aid in i ehabilitation of the islands hemp industry. Secretary of Agriculture Placido Mapa said today. Mapa stated the Government has been informed that the United States Congress may be asked to appropriate funds for subsidising expansion
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    ASIAN RUBBER CARGO FOR USA
    134 6 lyiTH a full cargo of rubber from various ports in South-East Asia, the new freighter Mandeville (6,000 gross tons) will leave Singapore ......•»...—->— for the USA today. The Mandeville is under charter to the Klaveness Line. Norwegian agents of vessels well-known here such as the
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    POWER COSTS HIGHER
    75 6 THE Federation's live per cent surcharge on »H electricity rates evceut rates in respect of J supplies to open tnst mines and dredges, \rl" be Increased to 15 per cent Com March 1. The surcharge tj not J applicable to rcnta'.s for apparatus on hire. J The.
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    DEATH
    116 6 CHEONG HOCK CHYE J.l\. of Messrs. Cheong Hock Chye Co., Ltd., passed away peacefully at the age of 49 on Sunday 27th February. 1949, leaving behind his beloved widow, 3 sons, Thiam Sicw. Thtam Gee Thiam Chin, 2 daughters, Liang Neo Tian Neo, 2 daugh-ters-in-law, 1 son-in-law and 1
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      193 6 Malacca Bankruptcy No. 39 of 1932 Re Haji Mahpol bin Mohanied Ali Notice is licn-by given that a thud nnd iinal dividend La intended t'» he declared-in the above matter. All creditors must prove their claims by the 21st day of March, 1949, otherwise they will be excluded from this
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    MCC LEADS NATAL BY 20 RUNS
    175 7 DURB A N, Sun.— Thanks to a fine fighting century by Reginald Simpson the MC.C. were able to lead Natal on the first innings by 20 runs with one wicket to fall on the second day of their match here. VI the close of
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    OOI — SKAARUP GAME BEST
    212 7  - OOI SKAARUP GAME BEST From JIMMY GLOVER PRESTON, Sunday. AOI Teik Hock's victory over Joern Skaarup after eighty minues of gruelling play is unlikely to be forgotten by England and Preston badminton circles for many a year. Critics expressed that this was the best game seen in the whole of
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    S.S.C. Win
    112 7 THE Singapore Swimming Club beat the Tiger Swimming Club in uT the three water-polo matches played at the Singapore Swimming Club yesterday morning. In the first game the Singapore Swimming Club first team trounced the Tigers' first team by five goals to two. Included in the Singapore Swimming
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    NO REGRETS IMPRESSES
    217 7 Today's Track Notes (By ALLAN LFAVI*) THIS morning's fast work was done on the number two grass which was slightly heavy after week-end rain. Bcst'of the trials was that of No Regrets. Kentucky II and Red Hackle were the first out and went very well over three.
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    Nan Chiau Girls Defeat Medan Basketball Team
    231 7 A crowd of 3,000 including the Singapore ChiR nese vice-consul, Mr. S. Y. Cheng saw fast and exciting basketball when the Black and White Girls' team met Nan Chiau Girls' School at the Happy V/orld covered stadium last night. Playing their first match
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    JOLLILADS WIN 4-0
    120 7 I"N a friendly match of soccer, j the Jollilads Athletic Union defeated the Kew Seng XI by four goals to nil at Scletar yesterday. The Jollilads opened ac- counts in the tenth minute Of play through Tobing, who j sent in a rising shot after trapping a
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    How They Ran At Bukit Timah
    1582 7  -  -by ALLAN LEWIS The two main races on Saturday were won by Prr»--,f ,<?<s Guinevere and Glorify. I hink all the credit for Prin:ess Guinevere's win must lefinitely go to her rider Ken 'offers. Jeffers jumoed her iway well and after goin-; iboiit one
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    INTER—COLLEGE SPORTS MEET
    37 8 lh .> 440 yards flat at Saturday's intertollege sports meet. Horairaj third fron, -id c !nn er in 52 2 5 seconds. His elder brother S. I> Williams WM* from ton earn runner-up. Tribun- Picture.
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY General
    55 8 Ml NICIP A L COUNCIL VIFETING 2.15 p.m. T N JT MONDAY MORNING MARKET: Presbyterian Church Hail, Orchard Road, 8.30 a.m. to noon. INTERNA nONAL AR llS'is' AMHOCIATfON: Life class. British Council Centre— i[ m i V M t'- A.: Orchard Road, Malay daw SJO p.m.
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    Cinemas
    243 8 PAVILION: "The Blind Goddess," with Eric Portman, Anne Crawford, Hugh Williams and Michael Denison—2, 4.15, 0.30 and 9.30 p.m. CAPITOL: "Mutiny on the Bounty," witn Charles Laughton and Clark Gable—ll a.m.. 1.4.'., 4, 0 .'JO an<l 9.19 p.m. CATHAY: "A Southern Yankee" with Red Skelton and Brian Donlevy—ll a.m.
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    Sport
    44 8 TABLE 1ENNIS: Chinese Y.M.C.A 107, Selegie Road— 5 p.m. NETBALL PRACTICE: 8, Fort Canning— 5 15 p.m. CRICKET NET PRACTICE: Y.M.C.A., Orchard Road—5 p.m. LAWN TENNIS AND BADMINTON: Y M.C.A., Orchard j Road —5 p.m. Tide r HIGH WATER: 11.20 a.m. (Of- < 3in.).
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    Britain Still Needs Dollar Aid—Cripps
    229 8 Reuter. LONDON, Sunday.—Sir Stafford Cripps, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, tonight repudiated a statement by Foreign Under Secretary Mayhew at Lake Success last Wednesday in which Mr. Mayhew told the United Nations Economic and Social Council that Britain had "long passed the recovery stage" and
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    Compulsory Primary Education
    197 8 KUALA LUMIMJR. SunRepresentatives of 78 out of 16J registered trade unions in the Federation, at a conference held here vesterfay, calied upon the Government *o give free primary education in English to all school going children and establish night schools for adults. The conference also asked Government
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    W. INDIES 316 FOR 4
    45 8 Reuter. COLOMBO. Sun. Ceylon were all out in their first innings for 381 in the second Test match against the West Indies, who replied with 316 for the loss of four wickets at the close of play here today. —Reuter.
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    THAKIN NU APPEALS TO END TERRORISM
    279 8 HE A V V FIGHTING IN PROGRESS Reuter. RANGOON, Sunday. Heavy fighting against rebels in central Burma was announced tonight, shortly after Prime Minister Thakin Nu had stated that 30,000 people had died as a result of the year-old insurrection. Troops launched strong attacks
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    HOUSEWIFE'S DREAM
    84 8 Reuter. WOLVERHAMPTON. Sun.- Rubber produced in Malaya i may make every housewife"s I dream come true and provide j every home with a refrigerator. It is used in making a new I substance called pliofilm, in a new factory opened here by Lord Amnion on Friday. Made by
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    Raffles College Union's I.ii Cheng (extreme right) breasting the rape in the 75 Yards Indies' Event of the Inter – College Sports on Saturday. Her time was 10-1 !i sees. Second from left 5s Ng Mci Chan, runner-up. —Tribune Picture.
    40 8 Raffles College Union's I.ii Cheng (extreme right) breasting the rape in the 75 Yards Indies' Event of the Inter College Sports on Saturday. Her time was 10-1 !i sees. Second from left 5 s Ng Mci Chan, runner-up. —Tribune Picture.
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    WEIGHTS
    122 8 The following are the weights for the three remaining races for Wednesday's meeting Horses CI. I, Div. 1, 0 Furs. No Regrets 9.08 Gold Caste Hi" Some Cla.ss H.ur> Glorify 8.06 Everest 8.03 Snaps 8.01 Purp'e Kr.ight 8.01 Oriental 7 13 Cabaret 7.08 Bright Eyes 7.03 Pharminda 7.0.3 Horses
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    STRIKE MALTS RACES
    46 8 TOKIO, Sun. Horse races at Scnoda were cancelled and amusement centres at Takarazuka and Other suburban towns were closed today as employees of the Keihanshin electric railway, connecting Kyot. Osaka and Kobe came out on a 24--hcur strike following a prolonged wage dispute.—U.P.
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    Single Nationality For Malaya Urged
    241 8 The Singapore Malay daily, Utusan Meiayu r?3 for abolit i°n of -this strange Znt hv Fede al Ci f tizeilsn iP and its replacement by a single-nationality concept of citizenship for Malaya. nf p W an inK that the implementation of the present form of
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    'We Will Lose Malaya', Mother Warns Govt.
    316 8 Reuter. LONDON, Sunday.—The imperialist Sunduv Express published a letter attacking the British Government's policy in Malaya frotn i mother whose son was killed by terrorists there The writer, Mrs. Helen Harrison, of Edinburgh, said in her letter: "If yon can, do something to
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    AIR MAILS EXPECTED
    53 8 Air Mails expected to-day (Mondavi include those from USA Central and South America the UK. Aden. Arabia, 'anada. Europe, India. Iran, Iraq. Pakistan, Palestine and Holland. Air mails are also expected to-day from Burma, Sam, China, Hong Kong and Japan. Surface mail from India is due to-day
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    Jouhaux Heads New Movement
    57 8 Reuter. BRUSSELS, Sun. If. Loon Jouhaux, veteran French Trade Union leader, was elected chairman of the Inter-Nation Council of the European Movement when it met In a plenary session in Brussels today. Mi. Duncan Sandys, son-in-law of Winston Churchill, was unanimously re-elected chairman of the International
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    AIR STRIKE OFF
    34 8 A.P. P.OMBAY, Sun.—The ten-day oM strike by employees of the I Air India Limited was called j off tonight at the intervention i of the Sheriff of Bombay, i Joachim Alva.—A.P.
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    8 NEW COMMANDMENTS
    113 8 U.P. CHICAGO. Sun. Mrs. Adeline Bryzek. 28. went back to her husband Carl yesterday on a 90-day trial arranged by Judge Julius Miner after Bryzek promised. 1. To wear his wedding ring at all times. 2 Tell someone named Evalina in Mrs. Bryzek s presence that his
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    INQUIRY INTO BORNEO RUBBER INDUSTRY
    90 8 Reuter. LONDON, Sun A man commission hat pointed by the Governor of North Borneo, Sir Edward Twining, to conduct an inquiry into the rubber industry in the Colony, the Colonjai Office announced The committee's terms I ference are as follows: "Having regard to tin probable
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      143 8 LIX AIIM It By ill Cap,. SWING A 7 OH, STRANGERS SHMOOS WARMT V DAN'I \J Km dONT KNOW \/V r 0l ir A LOW J/ MEANT T'BE (S°B. r SrAOTf. THEY WAS j SHMOOME WMOT EXTERMIN-X SHMOuS *--v SWEET /I MEANT T'BE. LOVED/l'-HOW KIN ANY- VIS THE NAME/T MEANS-BUT
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