Malaya Tribune, 18 March 1949

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    65 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE By THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tet "Tribune, Spore. Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper In Malaya Phone: AM 11 a Nin« Unea Published simultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, and Penan tj. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDOS' REPRESENTATIVE:
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    RANGOON'S FATE HANGING IN THE BALANCE
    292 1 Troops Fall Back A.P., U.P. RANGOON, Friday. How long will Rangoon last now thH the Karen* have taken Mandalay? Observers believe the fall of Burma's capita; lo he inevitable, as the Government forces fall back on the city. Premier Thakin Nu has left for
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    "WE'RE NOT CRACKING"
    53 1 A.P. LONDON, Thurs.—U Ohn, newly appointed Burmese Am1 bassador to London, says that "the continuance of democracy in Burma depends on the reten-, j tion of power by Premier Thakin Nu. i "Rumours that the Government is cracking are untrue.- II I Ohn arrived at Southampton by
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    Storm Kills
    52 1 STOP PRESS n i,, Malay wopiH <•> »;> Mam* a«*l K' rl 14 a Initio- live when ,4* i rajryd in tne Telok r.. ,rtlt-riia >. HuMirf i»l I rees WWW uppkA In ralpißg, iig.iting MM «yMema were atil: alarm systrm in v.;o 'ruck, setting ill I i!s
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    A BANDITS SHOT
    59 1 Ml AX, Today.—Four ban,r. nhol dead by secure torees raiding hide >uts in th Stegkaag area. Three h were arrested. AH r I i I t« b i.i*-oiber> irioas Qlagtrnng laaatag gnardn at Kamaaj Bahru, Khaaag, routed a bandit |>art> addle crossing a atmj lint- shortly after
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    Edith slims the meat ration
    91 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thur». Britain's iiii-al ration is to Ik- iintarfd from March 27 from a shilling 1«» I#«L a week, ur. fcauth Suminerskiil, i-i-riiainealary .secretary to UM HtHMffilT ot r-'ood auiiou.ieed in the House vi r—niirittf today. pence «»1 trie ten pein.- w.-t he ea.case
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    MRS. PANDIT'S PLANS
    47 1 Reuter. MOSCOW, Thurs. Mrs Vljaya Lakshmi Pandit India's Ambassador to Dovltt Russia, is planning to leav<- Moscow by air about April 1 to atUnd the wedding of her daughter Cnandralekhu to Ashoka Mcßta Of the Indian Foreign J.erviee. The wedding takes plac- m —Reuter.
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    B.B.C.'s GESTURE
    37 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. The British Broadcasting Corporation is to increase the tvue devoted to its broadcasts to India aod Pakistan as from April 3. in recognition of the status cf the two new dominions. —Reu*.-r.
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    MR. WYATT JOINS THE OPTIMISTS
    131 1 Reuter. LONDON. Thurs British Labooi Member or Parliament I Wooriiow Wyatt forecast that guerilla fighters in Malaya would lit' brought under control by the end oi the year in a; tiespatch from Malaya published tonight In the left-wing New Statesman. Aitei reviewing the dcvC-Offr-ment of
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    First Love, Then Death
    55 1 U.P. TALCOTT. West Virginia i Thurs. —Two high school students who ended their lives with a shotgun were buried side by side following double funeral services. Mary Alice Kirby, 14. and Ernest Smith, 16, high school classmates decided on suicide when the youth's failure to "get
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    "BLOCKADE"
    43 1 U.P. BERLIN, Thurs.—The American Women's Club of Berlin today published in Cookbook the following instructions for mixing a "Block-ade" two bottles of Cognac, six bottles of white wine, six bottles of red wine, six bottles of champagne, two tins of mixed fruits.—U.P.
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    A MEMORANDUM FOR MR. EDEN
    127 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. The Selangor Branch of the UMNO presented a memorandum to Mr. Anthony Eden, deputy leader of the Conservative Party this evening. The contents are top-secret but a spokesiuuii Told the Tribune "it expresses the feelings of Malayans in general and the Selangor
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    PAPERS GLOSED
    21 1 A.P. BEIRUT, Thurs.—Publication permit* have been withdrawn; for 32 daily newspapers in i Beirut. Only 22 dailies are) continuing.—A.P.
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    STATES MERGED
    22 1 NEW DELHI, Thurs.—The States Ministry said that 538 of the 562 Indian states have been integrated by merger and grouping.
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    GETS HONOUR
    39 1 U.P. WEST POINT, Thurs. A Filipino hero of the Bataan campaign Captain Antonio Alejandre, formerly of the USAFFE, was decorated posthumously with a Silver Star Medal and Purple Heart in ceremonies at tne 182 nd Infantry Regiment.—U.P.
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    SOLDIERING IS THIRSTY WORK
    20 1 Nationalist soldiers stationed in TAIPEH, FORMOSA take time off for lemonade at a street vendor's stall.
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    ATLANTIC PACT TODAY
    81 1 A.P. LONDON, Fri.—The text of the Atlantic Fact will be published in the capitals oi the Western Union powers, the United States and Canada this afternoon. Mr. Ernest Bevin, Britain's Foreign Minister, and U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Aoheson, will broadcast to their people tonight. A
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    WARNING
    29 1 A.P. LONDON, Thurs.—Ales Beblor, Yugoslav Deputy Foieign Ministry, predicted Wednesday the Cominform will intensify it's pressure on Marshal Tito's :<-;;inie in Yugoslavia in the next six month A.R
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    SIX NEW PLANKS
    32 1 LONDON, Thuis Six Boeing stratocruisers, on order for the British Overseas Airways Corporation, are expected to be delivered in time to begin a limited North Atlantic service next January.—A.P.
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    PLOTTERS FAIL
    23 1 U.P. SEOUL, Thurs.-A plot to assassinate members of President Syngman Rhee's Cabinet has failed with the arrest of forty "leftist" leaders.—U.P.
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    India Pact Is Denied
    190 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Thursday. Reports on a joint defence scheme between Pakistan and India were denied by an authoritative New Delhi source today. The source said that no talks on the subject were taking place "under British or any other auspices." The source also lenieo tne
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    Hongkong's Biggest Budget
    142 1 A.P. HONGKONG. Thurs.—The largest budget in the British colony's history was presented today to the Hongkong Legislative Council, with the warning that the biggest problem of 1949 would be to preserve law and order. "Hongkong will have to guard against developments which may or may not occur,"
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    SMALLPOX IS SPREADING IN BATAVIA
    43 1 A.P. BATAVIA, Thurs. —A smallpox epidemic which has swept Batavia during- the past six weeks killing 368 people, has spread east, to Bandoeng. Most of the 882 Batavia cases are in quarantineSeven thousand persons are being vaccinated daily.—A.P.
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    GURKHAS MORTAR JOHORE BANDIT CAMP
    563 2 Non-stop 2-hour attack PONTIAN, Thursday. 4 bandit camp in the Pgya Ambon area r~ oft 38th mile Pontian Road—rwas heavily bombarded by mortar fire when troops from the Ist 2nd Gtiikla Rifles went into action during "Operation Rattlesnake" this morning. The bombardment went on continuously
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    VEHICLES OFFICE
    38 2 MALACCA. Thurs.—As from Monday. March 21 the office of the Registrar and Inspector of Motor Vehicles. Malacca, will be located at th*- Old Malay Volunteer Headquarters. Banda Hilir Road. ground floor. .*nV«i r\ no.fr** «ri r*.f
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    A CLOSE SHAVE...
    113 2 iA. C«l. G. Richardson, Conr.naan.Unx Oflicer of the Ist, '2nd &m I M« ant! Tribune staff reporter, Harry Fang, hau a narrow shave with death daring "Operation Rat tiesnake." They were taking piet un ;s of tv.' Gurkha teams 'who were hi action with mortars. A hhei!
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    RED WOMEN CAUGHT
    76 2 NEGRI SEMBII«AN. Kuala Pilah, Thurs.—SocJTity Forces »>perating south of. Kemayan captured a Chinese wanted for murder yesterday. A bandit leader living in the same house escpned on the arrival of the Security Forces Two Chinese women were arrested in the same area. One of them has been
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    Red Camps Fired, Supporters Held
    186 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) IPOH, Thursday 4 combined pohce/military party today located a n bandit camp on the Sungei Perak River near Tanjong Rambutan. The camp consisted of four huts capable of holding 20 persons. Tinned food was found though there were no signs of recent
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    COMMUNITY HALLS: GOVT. TO MEET FULL COST
    142 2 GOVERNMENT will* be asked to meet the full cost of erecting four community halls on available Crown lands in the rural areas. The Rural Board took this d<eision at its meeting yesterday. Retiring chairman. Mr C W. A. Sennett tol l the Board
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    AIR CHIEF DUE HERE
    89 2 All"-Vice Marshal H. T. Lydfonl the Commandant. General of the Royal Air Force Regiment is arriving by air from the United Kingdom at Changi on Monday on a five day tour of Malaya. He will visit the R.A.F Squadrons and Depots of the R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya)
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    IN MEMORY OF MR. CHEONG
    64 2 MEMBERS atrajnrrfl an* ante's silence in ratci k>i y of the ut<- Mr. Cheong Hoc Chye <t the mcctinu "f the Rural Board hold ye.--tetd <.. rhc Board i< t nd a message of condoleno- bo the wMow and children. Mi. B. M. Alfcaff and
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    JOE DAVID BOAD
    21 2 The road leading to Tanjong BalaJ, at .lurong was named Joe David Road by the Rural Board yesterday.
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    CHINESE DISCHARGED
    91 2 LIM Boon Pin, a Chines, ajtas discharged in the First District Court yestev day. His defence was not called. He was charged with having criminally conspired with ClitToid Mudd to induce the military authorities to hand over to him steel pipes valued at $48,959. He was also discharged
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    BOYS DONATE BLOOD
    52 2 Eighteen schoolboys from the Victoria School over the age of 18, have, with the consent of their parents, donated their blood to the Blood Bank. Several more have volunteered to donate blood, and will be visiting the Blood Transfusion Centre at the General Hospital within the next
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    Fish Experts Meet Here Next Week
    180 2 THE inaugural meeting of tile lotto Pacific Fisheries Council will take place at the King Edward Vll Medical College between Mar- 24 and 31. The meeting will be opened by Mr. Norris E. Dodd. DirectorGeneral of the Food and Agriculture Organisation under whose auspices
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    MORE PORKERS THIS YEAR
    113 2 INHERE arc 25.610 more pigs in the rural areas of Singa- i pore than there were last your. This was disclosed at yesterday's meeting of the Rural Board when it discussed the noed for licensing private slaughter houses. Retiring chaitman. Mr. C. W. A. Sennett told
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    'Stronger Revolver Cords'—Urge Jury
    377 2 'Stronger Revolver Cords' —Urge Jury BECKER INQUIRY ENDS Arecommenaation by the Jury that the pni should i'Jfe a stronger type of cord on nT revolvers was made in the Singa> )ore CororP Court yesterday at the conclusion of the mo 2 into the death of Mr. John Noel Becker. 1
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    NEW MARKET AT UPPER SERANGOON
    81 2 Mr. A. O. do Lewis if pointed market superinteadeal of the new market at iPK r Serangoon by the Rural Hoard yesterday. The new rates for I at his market were tabled ana approved. It .showed a 50 W r cent increase of pre-war rah*
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    30 M.P.H. Signs For Villages
    99 2 THIRTY mile per hour speed limit signs will go up on roads approaching rural villages shortly. This was decided at a meeting of the Rural Board yesterday. The 30-milc-per-hour speed limit will be enforced at the following villages Bukit Timah, Jurong. Nee Soon. Buona Vista.
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    ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
    41 2 KLUANG. Thurs. Teoh Swcc An of Ayer Itam was charged in the Kluang Magistrate Court yesterday for attempted suicide at Ayer Itam on February 6, x 949. He was bound over in the surr t)f $100/- with one sut-ety.
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    MUNICIPAL MEETING
    23 2 MALACCA. Thurs. —The monthly meeting of the Malacca Municipal Commissioner? wil be held at the Municipal Office on Wednesday. March 23
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    'SULTAN'S POWERS FADING'
    536 3  -  says Laycock 2 *j*J* Order-in-Council given to thi «s2 have take away and Lavcoek k«K£ legislature, stated Mr. .John in the Singapore High Court vest-rdav of hifareuS 15 SffiMtSttiaffik* tent on th^t^« c u Uttm f D power and th»t h! Ulta^° f Johore was sovereign court
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    PAPERS CONFUSE VOTERS
    113 3 THERE are a number of people who arc confusing election papers sent out to them to explain how to vote, for actual ballot papers and they have posted these to the Supervisor of Elections Mrs. A. S. M Hawkins, told the Tribune yesterday that there is only
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    HAD SAMSU
    47 3 KLUAN'G, Thurs.—Murugayu, an Indian.' (16) was charged for having eight large bottles of Chinese samsu ttt his shop at Mengkibol village on March 1949. He was lined $78.33 with the option of one month'. 1 simple imprisonment by the Kluang Magistrate, Mr. A. H. Girdlcr.
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    WATER RATES: RURAL BOARD TO PROTEST
    140 3 »!ih Rural Board is to take 1 >, the matter of high Hit r rat in the rural areas Government The •i this decision at til yestefAay and exsatisfaction with nnient's reply on the gtfstioitol water rates at the j.i.iii Legislative Council TH aicttia
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    KIWI PICNIC
    17 3 ection of the ague will pic- Data c j. PaghWs hoiigalow at Pulau Übin flaaday.
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    St. Patrick's Day IRISH TOAST
    127 3 np\VO hundred and soventy- five Irishmen and their guests last night drank Irish whiskey—with an 'c'—to celebrate St. Patrick's Day at Mr. C. L. Edward's house in Tanglin Road. General D. Dunlop. the Commander of Singapore District, presided over the party which included the Chicftan
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    BOYS PRAY
    93 3 THE hoys of St. Patrick s Schooi in Katong had a holiday in honour of their Pation saint yesterday. The hoys attended a High Mas.-; at the School Chapel. Katong Choir boys were in attendance. There was a sports meet for the boys of Primary f, H, and
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    AND SHAMROCKS
    20 3 Gen. P Dunlop present*-d shamrocks to members, oi the Inniskillings at Johore yesterday. It was St. Patrick* Day.
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    The Little Fisherfolk
    66 3 Mr. T. P. F. McNiece, Vlr. C. C. Dant, Inche Sardon bin Haji Zubir and kampong leaders look over some of the 200 starving children, dependants of fishermen who because of the curlew in the Straits of Johore have had to abandon'fishing and work instead at the
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    MORE BYE-LAWS
    55 3 A SET of Building bye laws for the ruial areas of Singapore will be drafted and published in the Government Gazette it was disclosed at the mooting of the Rural Board yesterday. The bye-laws will be tabled for discussion at the aaxt meeting of the Board attethc public
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    NOON SCHOOLS
    55 3 THE Department of Education is trying to open Aft moon English Schools for overage Children in certain areas in January. 1950. Application Forms for enrolment may be obtained from the Police Stations at Changi. Paya Lobar. Bedok. Bukit Panjang and Pasir Panjang and should be returned there not
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    'We'll Fight For Promotions'—Tan
    185 3 'We'll Fight For Promotions' Tan JHE Progressive Party will fight for the exertion of a Public Services Commission to control all appointments and promotions and the flow of candidates to staff vacant posts in the Colony, even if the Party has to carry the matter to the Secretary of State
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    AND BETTER CONDITIONS
    99 3 Mr. Robertson I Progressive) said if he was elected he would concentrate on finding ways and means for raising the revenue oi the Municipality for improvement of conditions in the City. He said in effect that without money no substantial improvement could he expected and no far-reach-ing
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    'Tuan Ceylon' bluffed the Japs
    367 3 'Tuan Ceylon bluffed the Japs (Tribune Staff Reporter) ANE of the recent recipients of a Pnsorcr of War Certificate signed by the Commissioner-Gene-ral (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) was 53 year-old Mr. H. A. Ferdinands, for sixteen years a resident of the island of Moro, part of s group of Dutch Islands
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    Stabbed Body Of Mee Seller Found
    138 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) SINGAPORE police are investigating the death of a 38-year-old Teochew mee-seller whose stabbed body was found at the 6' milestone Yeo Chu Kang Road, Paya Letaar. In Police custody, is a 42--year-old Toochew said to have been dead man's assistant till
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    HE HAD TO RUN AWAY TO LEARN THE TRUTH
    363 4 So Many Cars, So Much Freedom OUR FRIENDS THE RUSSIANS NEW YORK, Thurs.—A refugee Soviet Air Force officer, ex-Lieut. Peter Pirogov says that the greatest single thing he had seen in America Iwve 0# ptmMttriav what they really think. This not
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    'R.L.S.' Classic Will Be Disney's Latest
    510 4 BOY-STAR IN "TREASURE ISLAND" FILM NEWS by OSWALD HENRY AN Saturday last, the V.M.C.A. Movie Circle screened the reissue of an old but cxcitinß film featuring Wailace Beery, Lionel Barrymore and Freddie Bartholomew in the leading- roles. It was the movie version of Robert
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    UNCIVILISED
    23 4 U.P. TEHERAN. Thurs.—A Persian Foreign Office official today charged that recent Russian press and radio attacks on Iran exceeded "civilised standards." —U.P.
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    TOO MUCH QUAKE
    23 4 A.P. CALIFORNIA. Thurs. The University of California recorded a moderately strong one hour earthquake the Southwest Pacific area —A P.
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    Oh! What Big Words They Use!
    127 4 A.P. MOSCOW. Thurs.— Pravda. Izvcstia and other Russian papers have published major editorials calling for the crushing of "bourgeois cosmopolites in the Soviet cinema." The Minister of Film Industry. I. Bolshakov, writing in Pravda, found that a group of film directors and critics, led
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    Phone Cut For Wrong Payment
    102 4 Reuter. BERLIN/ Thurs.— "Western" Berlin Post Office today cut the telephone linen of three senior officials of the Soviet-controlled railway who, although living In the Western sectors, insisted on paying their bills in ••Eastern" marks. A Post Office spokesman said all office lines of the
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    THE PLEASURES OF TRAVEL
    237 4 MUNICH, Thursday—Poor transportation, high prices and inflation are causing growing resentment in the Soviet occupation zone, a Bavarian who travelled there reports. One of the biggest worries, he said, was the problem of money. "Economic conditions can no longer be compared to the Western zone" he
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    The Guests They Do Not Want
    232 4 Peace Talk Not Peaceful WASHINGTON*. Th<jt- |k U.S. State Department day reluctantly mun?. mission for 22 delegate) {[T Russia and Soviet bin, tries to atten<l a "pete* ference opening on Ifardi B in New York. At the MUM tiflw, tlr v partment chatgM that
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    GAIETY GAL GOES GAY
    54 4 4 y/lHJC"' O JEAN KENT, singing star of the Two Cttte* 1■• production "Trottie True" (in which she r v idpart), climbs on the table-top in Kommmo's tr*e loardian restaurant to do an impromptu raw" n&*& gaiety style. Jean co-stars in the film with /amc* Hugh
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    CAMP OF DESPAIR
    375 5 People Nobody Wants Wait in— 3aN« Thursday. Eight hundred »us, stateless foreigners in desperately telling themselves lot act unwisely in resigning and selling their homes and the hope of obtaining Irueree Organization assistance to ape from Chinese Communist Snaion of this city. ii months of waiting for
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    FIRE
    96 5 U.P. They Lost Homes SENDAI Thurs. Forty throe houses here were razed early this morning by a fire that began in a refreshment house. Two hundred people have been made homeless and damage is estimated at thirty million yen.—U.P. She Lost Family THIEF RIVER FALLS. MINNESOTA. Thurs. Mrs. Perry
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    'BAO DAI NOT SUBSERVIENT TO FRANCE'
    131 5 Reuter. MANCHESTER, England. Thurs.—The liberal Manchester Guardian today submitted that the "success" of the French Government's "latest attempt" to restore law and order in Indo-China would depend entirely on the political influence of the Annamitc Emperor, Bao Dai. "The freedom which the French have
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    SHARKEY TO BE PROSECUTED
    81 5 Reuter. CANBERRA. Thurs —Mi Lance Sharkev. general secretary of the Australian Ccmmunist Paity. will be prosecuted for alleged seditious woids. Senator N. E. McKenna. acting Australian Attorney-General, announced tcday. Mr. Sharkey was reported in sections of the Australian press on March 5 as having said: "If
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    WAVES MAY RULE BRITAIN
    136 5 Water, Water Everywhere IpNDON. Thursday.—The waves will rale < oast erosion isn't halted. Oovfrn»f»v md local ofliciais are alarmed at the I,rn f- l.h sea. Valuable land and houses shed away constantly. %h'«V pounded by n mnhiinc: irwayi :,t three reel i. EL, Norfolk j I
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    AND INDIA TOO
    74 5 A.P. KARACHI. Thurs-Consult tug engineers m Britain have j been naked anr ndenknfrfcfv Smd GovpniMi-ut. winch is wor ,rd ahead a aia crank- which i anil aw tnaarprl n» ;i><- UM»vd Barr:v?e, huge water regulator the River Indus. '(vt-iiiv the hnsrage In f«¥#n r-c mile long, abowt
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    QUAKE RECORDED
    32 5 U.P. BERKELEY. California Thurs —A "moderately strong earthquake 6.200 miles fron Berkelv. possibly in the southwest Pacific area, was recorded for one hour on the University of California seismograph yesterday.—U.P.
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    Lancashire Lasses
    29 5 These Lancashire manare exhibiting the latest fashions in Lancashire cotton l.ibrics in London to show the public what British Industry is doing to help the export drive.
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    'Out Of Jail' Is Important Reading
    317 5 'Out Of Jail Is Important Reading A.P. NEW YORK. Thui s. "Out of .fail" by Sutan Siahrir, the former Premier of Indonesian Kepublic, says the New York Herald Tiibune, "i s important reading" for all who Are bewildered by the "Asia first- Europe first" controversy in U.S. foreign policy. An
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    IT'S A QUEER WORLD
    73 5 Baby Becomes Mother's Sister A.P. LONDON, Thursday. A baby girl beramo her mother s sister in the eyes of the law Wednesday. The Chancery Court authorised a couple to adopt an illegitimate child bo r n recently to their daughter. Preceedings were conducted in privat?. and
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    HE DREAMS OF POLE TO POLE FLIGHT
    55 5 NEW YORK. Thurs.—Captain Bill Odem announced today he intends to try a round-the-world flight by way of the North and South Poles. He admitted that the flight is till in the dream stage, but said he had already been briefed on Arctic wether
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    Reds Have Failed In India
    102 5 Reuter. NEW DELHI. Thurs. Indie's Reputy Prime Minister and the Home Minister, Sardar Valladhbhai Patcl, told Parliament today that recent Communist attempt to stir up strikes in India had generally failed. Tlic Government was determined to continue dealing successfully with the Communist "threat to internal
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    GEN. FU CAPTIVE
    36 5 Reuter.-AAP. NANKING, Thurs. Gen. I Fu Tso-yi was no longer an officer of the Nationalist Gov- ernment forces but was really, a captive of the Communists, aj Opveinment military spokesman said here today.—Reuter.-|
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    EMBEDDED GRENADE
    39 5 NANKING. Turns. A hand- g.enade has been discovered by j workmen carrying a out repairs embedded in the wall of the Nationalist Legislative j Yuan building here. Garrison: headquarters and police arc in-j vestigating the discovery. 1
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    The Bears Wont Mind
    96 5 U.P. HOKKAIDO, Friday. The fast disappearing Ainus. original inhabitants of Japan, have celebrated their last bear festival. The authorities have banned the killing of the bear as part of the festival as inhuman and cruel. The bear which is sacrificed is one which has been captured
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    FRUSTRATION
    60 5 A.P. SHANGHAI. Tkura A ic -wload of soldiers late yes terday beat up a score of' theatre employees, because an army officer was refused free! admission to a movie. A theatre watchman was reported to be in a serious con-j dition in the hospital. Damage to the equipment is
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    TOO SECRET
    29 5 U.P. TOKYO. Thurs. The United States Chamber of Commerce in Japan today accused the United States Army cf hiding non-military matters from the public under "secret" classifications.—U.F.
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    ONE HE DIDN'T CHOP
    71 5 A.P. LONDON. Thurs.— A couple of '•descendants'' of George Washington's family's old apr' r tree will be flown to America to be planted at M"'int Vernon. The trees were grown from grafts from a northern greening tree in the garden of Washingtofi'n ancestral home, Sulgrave Mpnor.
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    SALESMAN
    55 5 U.P. WASHINGTON. Thurs. Sir John Woods. Peimanent Secretary to the British Board of Trade, is travelling to the United States to select Deadquarters for four regional offices to find markets for British goods. Each will have a commercial consul with salaiy and allowances estimated to total eight thousand dollars
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    GETTING THE BACON
    25 5 A.P. IHE HAGUE, Thurs.—Dutch bacon deliveries to Britain on a longterm contract will be discussed in trade negotiations here next month. —A-P
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    DELAYED ACTION
    426 6 MR. LIM YEW HOCK's motion asking the Legislative Council to introduce legislation for Social Security found whole-hearted support This is not surprising. No politician worth his salt can afford to be against Social Security. No politician can hope to be elected on a platform of "No Social Security."
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    KABARETTA KOMICA
    625 6 The quickest way to learn German politics is to go into a cabaret. THE quickest way to learn German politics these days is to go into a cabaret. For the equivalent of two dollars and twenty cents one can have a full course, with music. The "political cabaret"
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    IT'S NOISY NEXT DOOR
    749 6 rTTHE work o*f that pioneer 1 who first propounded the thesis that a noise annoys an oyster more has at last been taken to its logical conclusion. Two teams of British researchers have combined to extend the study from noises that annoy oysters to noises that
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    Fire-Proof Paint
    223 6 AS a result of laboratory research carried out by the Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Australia can now produce paints which will resist temperatures of more than I.OOC degrees Fahrenheit. Use of these special pigments wiil, it is believed, reduce the general risk from fire as
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    JUDGE MEDINA'S WHIP
    697 6  -  MORE THAN by B. Heath THE nation's 11 top Communists scoured the United States to get lawyers who are clever at making public circuses out of criminal trials. That array of eminent barristers set out, with all tbeii skill, to break up the trial of their clients
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    FLAGSHIP DISAPPEARS INTO THE—RED
    62 8 FLAGSHIP DISAPPEARS INTO THE —RED FORMER Chinese Navy flag ship Chungking going down Vm Whangpoo River at Sham hai Sussex, well-known in Singapore as a cruiser unit of the Far Eastern Station (and formerly of the Pacific Feet), is seen here reaching Blighty from Ma'ayan waters on February 21. Sussex
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    Floating Carpet For The Sheikh
    299 8 Reuter. MANILA. Thurs. A luxurious 750-ton floating carpet for a fabulous potentate, which has just let Manila harbour for Persia is the object of bizarre horse-trading involving a big lot of oil. It cost the present owners of the aquatic piece of magic, which formerly
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    Freight "Rate" War
    119 8 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. —TTrgent exchanges between representatives of member shipping lines of the Karma Continental Committee took place today following the decision of the Dutch-Holland-Bombay-Karachi line to withdraw from the Karma conference and to institute further freight rate ductions. Mr. W. J Gordon, reading British shipping authority
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    HONGKONG TONNAGE
    46 8 A.P. HONG KONG. Thurs. The Far Eastern Economic Review said ocean and river steamers entering Hongkong during February numbered 527. with a tonnage of 767,247. Vessels leaving Hongkong totalled 531. with a total tonnage of 845.317. Inward February passengers numbered 62.341 and outward 64.338.—A.P.
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    Along The Godowns
    69 8 (hit Sein (45); Empire llanible sheers Wharf Manoeran (4*> 43); Charon (41 42); Steel Admiral (38 39); Mount ManshHd (34 BS)| Ko.pat (17 18); Bidor (IHM Sunipitan <?l Kengam (ft); fill! HOlJfc (£8 M); TmhseJ (27 88); W—■ foe* (SO); Pre*HMnf I vl. r— ■TißPlliM (t* II»
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    AIRMAILS AND SEA MAILS
    30 8 An mails expected in Singapore today ate from the United Kingdom. Ai! mails to the U.K. Europe, and Australia today ■hould be posted before 6 p.m
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    GOLD COAST LINKED
    41 8 view ot the heavy demand by passengers on the inter-Colonial services of the Vvest African Airways Corporation, which link Nigeria the Gold Coast. Sierra Ucone. the Gambia and Senegal, a second service is now being operated each week
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    Liners' Luxury Menus On The Ocean
    437 8 FIFTY years ago British shipping lines were worried about the millionaire luxury sea traveller turning to favour foreign ships. German lines were getting the cream of the first-class passengers. many of whom were paving high fares to dine in the ship's restaurant exclusively. It
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    CRUISER REACHES DAIREN
    400 8 Chungking Whither? (Tribune Shipping Editor CINCE the flagship of the Chinese Navy the 70--ton cruiser Chungking went over to the Communists last month, her movements have b concealed by her personnel. After Marshal Chiang Kaishek made his final appeal to the Navy at Nanking and then departed
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    MALAYAN TRADE— BRIGHT PICTURE
    139 9 IKTHUR Morse, Chairman of the board of the h««A heag ana] Shanghai Banking Corporation in a eZ" h n lX annual report touched on conditions wSS o.unt,r,< 1 by some of the bank's S eattT throughout the Far East. scatterHe had this to say oi Ma'aya:
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    —AND THE FAR EAST TOO
    278 9 HONGKONG, Thursday.—Business conditions in the Far East improved generally during 1948 with th* ftpl exception of China and Burma, according to Arthur Morse, head of the biggest foreign-owned bank in the Orient, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. s He said: Japan Business "disabilities" lessoned
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    Trade touches new high
    181 9 A.P. WASHINGTON. Thurs. Tat United States Departt" p nl of Commerce estimates* thr total of all business iWBBj *H nations in 1948 acceded r5551.000,000.000 This is about six percent Rreater than the 1947 total, 1 18.000.000.000. The Department said 1948 prices were 10 percent high- than
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    —Except China, Burma
    192 9 lUORSE warned foreign trad«■en expecting to do business with the Communist China that they must face "entirely new conditions without any precedent." China would continue to require capital goods and toieign investments, and businessmen -hould not neglect opportunities, he said. Morse criticised the present Nationalist Government of
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    NEW CAMPHOR?
    27 9 SIMLA, Thurs. —Experiments on the possibilities of producing camphor from "Tulsi" plant arc being carried out. at the Industrial Research Laboratory, Kasauli, (East Tun jab).
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    WHEAT: RUSSIA NOT WILLING
    144 9 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Thursday. Russia has told the world wheat conference that she is not willing to enter into an international agreement unless she is allocated 75,000 bushels as her annual export quota. The three other major exporting countries; Canada, the United States. and Australia arc not
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    GOLD AGAIN
    76 9 HYDERABAD. Thurs.—Gold mining is to be revived in Hyderabad with the installation at Hutti, in Raichur district, of machinery worth Rs. 5.000,000. The machinery, will have a milling capacity of about 2,000 tolas a day (one tola equal to 180 grains). The Hyderabad Government recently sponsored the formation
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    COMPANY DIVIDENDS
    95 9 Company Dividend Total for year to date Date payable NEAVE ORD. 3c. 2nd int. less tax 6c Mar. 26 IPrS* HITAM 20% int.. less tax Apr. 14 SjfANG TIN ss. No. 17 less tax J*% Apr. 13 I Io TA TIN 1%% int. less tax Mar. 25 M
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    MALAYA FREE TO SELL SAGO TO BRITAIN
    543 9 THE Ministry of Food of the United Kingdom has now approved the issue of open individual licences for importers of grocery sago (pearl sago). A telegram to this effect has been received by the Colonial Secretary's Office from th* Secretary of State, U.K.
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    HOW TO BUY YOUR RAYON
    103 9 A.P. NEW YORK. Thurs. A new system of telling buyers how rayon fabrics wear has been announced by two American national associations. Mora than 100 standards for the performance of rayon goods are expected to be established within 18 months. They will include standards for
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    MILK COLONY
    86 9 BOMBAY. Thurs.— Three of the largest pasteurisation plants in Asia with a capacity of 40,000 lb. per hour is to be installed at the milk colony at Aarey, 20 miles from Bombay city. The colony which was opened, recently, will be the biggest in India and will cost
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    Rubber Market
    67 9 WITH bettor advices from New York, the rubber commodity market was brisk yesterday. A fair amount of business was done at 5 s cent above Wednesday. Closing prices were Buyers. Sellers. No. 1 April RSS 37 38 No. 2 April RSS 35 7 36«; No. 3 April RSS
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    SHUTDOWN WILL HIT STEEL TRADE
    125 9 A.P. NEW YORK. Thurs. The magazine Iron Age. metalworking trade weekly, said on Wednesday that continuation of the coal mine shutdown beyond the scheduled two weeks would become a cause of worry in the steel industry. The two-week shutdown called by John L. Lewis won't
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    Produce Market
    95 9 fpHE produce markets were gcnera'ly quiet yesterday. Pepper and sago flour were unchanged with little business done. Copra was a steady market with enquiries from London. Yesterday's prices were: SAGO FLOUR Lingga 111%, Sarawak $10, Siak $10. SAGO SEED: $16. TAPIOCA FLOUR: Fair $23. FLAKE TAPIOCA $27, MEDIUM
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    JAPS CONTROL FOREIGN EXCHANGE
    104 9 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO, Thurs. The Japanese Government yesterday formally established a foreign exchange control board. Duties of the new board are firstly, to readjust procedural matters continuing foreign trade control and management; secondly, to clarify and define the scope of the work of government offices handling foreign
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    SHARES QUIET
    12 9 All sections of the share market were hesitant and quieter.
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    818 9 SINGAPORE. Thursday. Buyers Sellers Atlas Ice 15.00 16.00 tiex. Brick Pref. 2.77 2.85 Ords. 1.97 2.02 8.8. Petrol 39/3 40/3 4. M. Trustee 7.50 8.50 Cons. Tin Ord. 16/6 18/--do. (P123/6 24/6 E. Utd. Assur. 40.75 41.76 Estate Trust 7.00 8.00 N Pref. 8.70 9.00 (O) stk.
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    Round the World in Sport Horse—Talk In Prague
    87 10 Malaya Australia America Britain WARSAW A.P. WARSAW. Wed. Direclors of horse-racing in six Eastern European countries ■jiire expected to meet in fPrague, sometime at the end §if March to plan international events. [{Poland opens its racing sealon at nearby Sluzewiec rack on
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    JACOBS TO SELL OUT TO LOUIS
    86 10 NEW YORK I NEW YORK, Thurs.— Mike Jacobs will sell out his Twentieth Century Club boxing interests to the new Joe Louis organization, according to editor Stanley Woodward in the April issue of the Sports Illustrated magazine. Woodward said: "The Louis Norris Wiltz combination
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    MR. GRUNT and MR. GROAN-No. 1
    41 10 jSngiands Bert Assirati and Fnmce's Charles Rigonlot give out as the former struggles to free himself from, a leg scissors. Assirati won two of three falls deftwtino thr heax yiceight championship of Europe in Paris.
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    Jack Dempsey has a champ up his sleeve
    201 10 BALTIMORE A.P. BALTIMORE, Thursday.—A recent weekly rating of heavyweight fighters by Jack Demps«»\ started off. "World Champion: Vacant." For many years since his own name was removed from that spot, Dempsey has been searching for a fighter of his own. He found
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    AMERICA RATES WRESTLERS LIKE TAP DANCERS—
    386 10  -  NEW YORK By COPNELIUS RYAN U.P. NEW YORK. PROFESSIONAL wrestling has come back to the "big: time Madison r Square Garden, but only its promoters have faith it will stay there Jhere have been no wrestling shows in the Garden since 1937. and most
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    10-ROUND BOUT
    50 10 CHICAGO A.P. CHICAGO. Wed. Enrico Berthola. former Italian heavyweight champion. will fight Dick Hagen of Chicago in a ten round bout at Chicago Stadium on March 25. The match will be a supporting feature to the non title strap between welterweight champion Ray Robinson and Bobby Lee. -A.P.
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    MR. GRUNT and MR. GOAN—No. 2
    18 10 A pupil pins Major Browne to the ground in a "strangle lock."
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    —but our boys take JUDO seriously
    425 10 SINGAPORE IfIEET the organiser and instructor of Singapore's ©nlv Judo club—3l-year-old Major H. W. Browne. Major Biowne founded the club—the Raffles Judo Kwai—at the Raffles' Institution about one and a haii years ago. He first leaint the 'gentle' art of Judo in Hongkong where,
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    The Art Of Falling
    35 10 Lt.-Col. A. M. Horsbrugfa-Porter's Cabana and Jimmy Hartigan take the first jump of the Skynes Novices Steeplechase at Lingfielu, Eng., head first. Both know how to fall, dupli--0 eating each other.
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    VON CRAMM SWINGS HIS RACKET
    216 10 LONDON A.P. LONDON, Wed.—Twin ambitions will keep baron Gottfried yon Cramm, German tennis star now on a comeback, swinging his racket two more years. At 39 the handsome Baron wants to play pnee more on the green grass carpets of WimDiedpn where he was runnerup
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    TENNIS PLAYING BOOSTED
    134 10 SYDNEY A.I.S. SYDNEY Australia produces good woman tennis players but they lack first class tennis experience which can only be gained by playing abroad. This was the viewpoint recently emphasised by Miss Doris Hart, of the United States, who won the Australian national singles 4itie in Adelaide
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    COCK FIGHTING TABOO
    140 10 LONDON A.P. LONDON. Wed fw fighting, an illegal sport ii increasing in Britain Superintendent 8. Bennett* the Royal Societf foi Prevention of Ci Animals. Bennett said the Socfctv has a "blacklist of peon,,' who are alleged to indu cockfighting. The list, he said •includes people in verj
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    PARIS LURES MARINO
    109 10 HONOLULU A.P. HONOLULU. Thurs. Sad Sam Icherose, manager of Hawaiian boxer Dado Marino, wants to see Paris. That's why he is pulling for Maurice Sandeyron of France, the European flyweight champion, to lift the world flyweight crown from Belfast Irishman Rinty Monaghan. "I hope the French challenger,
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    TEAM SEEKS THE KING'S PATRONAGE
    248 11 DOMINION PROS 9 TO TOUR CEYLON INDIA, PAKISTAN Reuter. laONDON, Thursday. *pHE cricket team composed mainly of dominion professionals playing in Lancashire leagues which is to tour India, Pakistan and Ceylon next winter is to seek the patronage of the King. Jock Livingstone, Australian wicketkeeper
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    S.B.A. MEETING TOMORROW
    80 11 Clubs and parties affiliated to the Singapore Badminton Association are reminded that the j fourteenth annual general meet- ing will take place tomorrow j at the Haw Par Gymnasium j Hall, Clerical Union, Rangoon Road at 2.30 p.m. Two vcrv important resolutions have already been received for
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    KLUANG MALAYS LOSE TO R.A.S.C.
    84 11 In a thrilling soccer match UM Royal Army Service Corps km to defeat the kluang Malay? by two goals to one yesterday on the town p«.dang. Thf ftrat hnlf was played at a fas' pice with both teams attadrrnft in turn. Morton opened the RCaaiOf
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    SWIFT B.P.
    48 11 The Swift B.P. will be holding a picnic at Too Kirn Eng i bungalow. Pasir Ris. on Sunday. All members interested are requested to get in touch with either the President. 38. Eng Hoon Street or the Treasurer. 24 Eng Hoon Street before Mar. 23, 1949.
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    Beat Rare Will Be Televised
    77 11 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. For the first time in history, the Oxford ami Cambridge boat r-»oe wil« be televised over the length of the course, if British broadcasting plans materialise. The BBC hopes to televiae the race with a water-borne television unit. In addition seven cameras
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    ACCENT ON WEIGHT
    119 11 THE accent is on weight for the wrestling at the Great World Arena to-mor-row night. The bill is made up of four heavyweight matches and one middleweight. Paul Nikoloff meets King Kong in the first of heavyweight bouts. Nikoloff has had only four bouts in Singapore, but
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    GAME POSTPONED
    31 11 The inter-school football matches between the Kluang Government English School and the Segamat Government English School scheduled to be played on Mar. 18 has been postponed to Mar. 25.
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    Saturday's RACE Handicaps
    290 11 The following -.re the weights for Saturday's races. Horses. CI. 5. Div. 1, 7 Furs Four Winds 9.04 Madang 0.00 Irish Song 8.13 Bullring 8.11 Arizona 8.06 Nonya Marl* 5 8 06 Missouri 8.00 Maintain 7.11 Kia Ora 7.09 Greetings 7.09 Horses. CI. 5, Div. 2. 7
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    Airmen Win but Fail to Impress
    411 11 R.A.F. Seletar 4 S.CC. t ALTHOUGH R-A.F. Seletar scored a I —l win over the S.C.C. in an S.A.F.A. Senior League fixture at Jalan Bcsar Stadium yesterday, their victory was won in a disappointing fashion. Up against a weaker team, they took no advantage
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    S. AFRICA: DOG RACE IMMORAL
    85 11 A.P. PRETORIA. Thurs.—Dog racing will be illegal in aU South Africa after July 1. In the Transvaal, the only province where it is permitted now, draft legislation to kill it was published on Thursday. The Nationalist Party is pledged to abolish dog racing on moral
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    MALACCA DEPARTMENTAL SOCCER
    101 11 MALACCA, Thurs. Malacca's soccer season opened on Tuesday when a combined P.W.D.-Survey Departments XI beat the Detention Camp XI by three goals to one in an InterDepartmenta; Football Shield Competition fixture. The losers combined well in mid-field but they lacked finish. The P.W.D. were twice penalised and
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    OMA TOPS BILL AT MADISON SQUARE
    51 11 A.P. NEW YORK, Thurs.—Lec Oma, Detroit heavyweight who has won his last five fights and Amacio Megaminte, Cuban heavyweight, will top Friday night's card in Madison Square Garden. Their ten-round bout replaced the Ike Williams —Kid Gavilan bout postponed when Williams injured a shoulder.—
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    WEEK-END SPORTS FIXTURES
    312 11 iBICKET V.M.C.A. v. INDIANS The following are invited to plav for VM.r.i. ngRtmt Indian Association at «t Ocoiuc's Road on Saturday at 2 P.m.: Lync (Cant. I. Holloway (V. Capt.). Sorratta rwiai E.N.. Yogoiajali. Dclikan. Tan Huck Chuan, Swvny. Hooper. (Joonesagaran, E. Fung. Reserves: Scharcnguival, Tung Siev
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    SOCCER
    78 11 CHEERFUL LAPS A team will be selected from the following to represent Cheerful Lads A.P. against B.O.D. Services at Soccer on Saturday at 5 p.m. at B.O.D. ground Members are requested to turn up at 310, Joo Chiat Road at 4 p.m. for transport:—Todny Adalia. Seah Teo Kim. Muniandy,
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    HOCKEY
    125 11 INTER HOSWIAL I'ltc First Inter Hospital Hockey Match will be played at Kam i Park on Saturday Under the jMispieos oi the Singapore Hospital Assistants Union. The following are requested t© turn up for the General Hospital and Government Medical Stores against Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the Rc3t.
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    U.S. DRAWS BACK IN THE PACIFIC
    218 12 A.P. PEARL HARBOUR, Thursday. On.'y four years, after winning mastery of the Pa( i.c from Japan, the United States is drawing back itfl mam defence line to its mid-west coast. The submarine is the only American weapon not being cut down in the Pacific.
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    Australian Red To Be Prosecuted
    80 12 A.P. CANBERRA, Thurs. Pro i eeedings against the General Secretary Of the Australian Communist Paity. Lance Sharkey, for alleged "utterance; of seditious worths" are to be instituted by the Commonwealth Government, the acting Attorney-General Senator Nicholas Mackenna announced The alleged statement on which action is
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    LOST PLANE ON MOUNTAIN
    51 12 A.P. MANILA, Thurs An ST man U.S.-Philippine rescue team today began a tortuoustrek to reach the wreckage of I a 8.29 tanker plane atop a Luzon mcuntain, 23 miles northeast of Manila. During the next five days they will hack their wav through highland jungles -1
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    PUBLIC MEETING
    43 12 pHB Ahmad bin Mohamed Ibrahim. Independent Candidate contesting in the Rochore Ward, Municipal Elections 1949, will hold a Public meeting at 8.30 p.m on Monday, March IS, at the Istana Kampong Glam under the Chairmanship of Haji Adam N. Mohamed Ibrahim
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    Chinese Firms Probed
    128 12 VICTORIA, British Columbia, Thur s. Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigated the operations of three Chinese firms here today to determine whether they were involved in illegal foreign exchange dealings. The Investigation began after the arrant on Saturday of Chin Poy, of Seattle, when he stepped off a
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    GIRAUD BURIED
    44 12 A.P. PARIS. Thins. The French General, Hem i Honors Qiraud was hurled yesterday with national honours. Leading Government and military offic-ahi attended the funeral services, which ended with the p ai ing of the body in the Tomb of the Inva'ids. A.P.
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    Labour Wins Again
    90 12 Reuter. SOWERBY, Thurs. The British Labour Party won yesterday's Parliamentary by-election nere, maintaining its record of not having lost a single constituency since the 1945 general election. Figures were: Douglas l Houghton (Labour) 18,606, Lieut.-Col. P. Bryan (Conner-1 vative) 16.454. Labour majority 2,162. The by-election was caused
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    U.S. REDS WILL FACE 7 WOMEN
    70 12 U.P. NEW YORK, Thurs, A jury of live men md seven women headed by a Negro housewife was chosen today to try 11 American Communist leaders on charges of conspiracy to advocate and teach the violent overthrow of the United State.: Government. Judge Harold
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    Negroes Mutiny On British Ship
    247 12 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Thurs. A dramatic tale of drifting helplessly for 23 days over mon than 500 miles of the Caribbean Sea, of hunger and thirst and of a mutiny and desertion, was told vy thd Captain of the British sloop Alliance. The captain
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    CATHOLICS STAY OUT
    67 12 THE Catholic Church will I not par ticipate in the meeting organised by the Inter Religious Organisation of Singapore and Johore to be held shortly. Father Bonami of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Victoria Street told this to the Tribune yesterday. "There is no question
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    ON TRANSFER
    39 12 MALACCA. Thurs.- Mr. D. M. McPhail, Assistant Controller of Supplies. Malacca is going on transfer to Penang at the end of the month. Mr. Aucutt, of Seremban, will be Assistant Controller of Supplies for Negri and Malacca
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    DOYEN DIES
    27 12 TUNIS, Thurs. Prominent Muslim leader Abdul Aziz Beji died here today at the age U 67. He was the doyen of Tunisia's Grand Council 'U.P.
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    Kidnapped Pilot
    71 12 Captain Donald K. iiussig was (be American pilot oi' a ChitK-x- National Amulmmi .>rpor..t ioa pa.>engvr plane when it KIM kidnapped and fOTPCJ to land m il:e i oiiiiiiunist held < it\ «»t Tsiiian. He relumed to h.i.iediai tufty da>s later. lia..ij; sant UtM arm J |,u>v »u.\
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    Labour Candidate Flays Government
    261 12 111 Government, the Municipality and the Singapore improvement Trust came under critiei.sm when Mr. Pat Johnson, Labour Party election candidal* for Municipality North, electors at Rangoon Road English School, yesterday. Ma. Johnson blamed Government for a misguided policy of taking yens to build expensive storeyed tenements
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    LONDON STOCK MARKET
    163 12 LONDON, Thins. Cessation of recent selling gave Ixmdon stock markets a much Deeded breathing spa •<• today Prices of domestic stocks showed small Improvements and a better tone existed n most sections out 'trading remained. Proposed currency reform for the VVestcrn zones of Germany brought in buyers
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    Greek Reds Lose Ground, Truman Says
    85 12 U.P. I WASHINGTON, Thuiv President Truman 'old Congn n today that 'he rci'-»aiy outlook for anti-coniMunist forces in Greece is "nnre promising than it has been for some time." In his quarterly report on the progress of the Jre:!: Turkish aid programme, Tr "man
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    TAPPED PHONES
    47 12 U.P. NEW YORK. Thurs. A blackmail ring, which tapped phones in hotel rooms and extorted more than US$l.OOO,--000 a year from wealthy and prominent victims, was icportcdly uncovered as the result of an inquiry into a plot to tap the wires of city officials. U.P.
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    TWINS OF DEFENCE
    183 12 U.P. I BOSTON. Thurs.-The Christian Science Monitor in an editorial today said that reports- from Ixmdon and Australia indicate the Pacific alliance in the making is destined to be a "glo- JSSL. twin sistc;r of the Atlantic Pact 1 The editorial stated "this is a British undertaking
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY
    53 12 General Y.M.C.A., Commercial Classes >30 p.m.; Free Educational j r ilm Show, 7.45 p.m. Y.W.C.A., Folk Dancing, Voal Training And Net-Ball. 8 Canning Rd.. 4.30 p.m. WESLEY METHODIST VOUTH FELLOWSHIP, Free r ilm 4, Fort Canning Kd., 7.30 p.m. Payer Lebar Methodist Youth Fellowship, /ariety Night, 7
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    Cinemas
    152 12 PAY I LION: "Pagliacci" i starring: Beniamino Gigli and £in a 2 415> 6 30 and 'J.30 p.m. i CATHAY: "Arch of Triumph" starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Bover, 11 a.m., 145 115. 6.45 and 9.30 p.m A LH AM BR A: "Trader Horn" with Harry Carev, 1.45, 4
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    Sport
    50 12 SOC ("EH: S.A..F A. Snr. Dlv. CLA. v. Site.—J, Beaar; Jnr. A. Grp., 2. Police S A. v. H M Dockyard—Thomson Rd,. Inr B. Grp. 1. Amateur Athletic Party v. Chine*? Hurricane*»— St. Georges Rd,; Jnr. B Grp i! Changi Prison O.C. v. Aston A thlulU: Club— Geylam* Sladiunt.
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    One Killed, 14 hurt in Italian riots
    249 12 A.P. and U.P. ROME, Thursday. One person and 14 injured when foundry workers "Molotov cocktails" fought in the i iJ?. ltJl town of Terni, after a riotous protest Italian participation in the Atlantic ]>. At the same time a free ror all brawl
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    Disloyal Siamese To Go
    115 12 BANGKOK. Thurs Defti ing future policy Siam unrest P. Phibu' Songkra, ]p s^! view today said that noliucu elimination of all 1 fugitive Siamese Pridi Panomy< i move "Siam s thi] which tactically mours creatiiiL' op| rjon h tween tin- arm] Premier PbJbul said the m
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    37 12 NEW VOKK I m Every !cad cf garbage dumped iato the ocean today »t A b* wo tXktß in an eitort to iaj -tghi small platinum nrniiijnrn holding thirteen hundred <i..1--an worth ol radium Ifj*.
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    Atomic Security Curtain Leaks
    190 12 U.P. MEXICO CITY, Thurs. It was lean d bene today that a leak in United States atom;- security, through which at least one piece of refined uraohmi was smuggled to Mexico, is under investigated by American and Mexican secret agents. Mexican authorities found the iranium—a cylindrical
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    FORGERY CHARGE
    50 12 MALACCA. Friday. Urn Cheng Hoe. Straits-born Chilesc employed in llessra Dun"op Malaya Batab. Ltd. Malacca, was cha! I wdth forgsuj i cheque in the Circuit Magfe* Urate's Coui t yesterday. The cheque wa.- valued at I $700. The cas;> was postponed 110 Mai eh 23, foi mention, and
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