Malaya Tribune, 21 April 1949

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    62 1 MALAYA Tribune BY THE PEOPLE EOK THE PEOPLE Tel: "Tribune, Spore. Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper in Malaya Phone: 5811/3 Nine Lines. Published simultaneously at Singxipore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, and Penang, EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1949 PRICE TEX CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice Glover,
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    ARMED TRAIN BRINGS 352 DETAINEES HERE
    179 1 n .u«iH»i (Tribune Staff Keporter) u,the arrived The detainees have been brought frora Pulau Jer--afc Camp off Penang, because the camp is already full to overflowing with political prisoners. Tne Government of Singapore has agreed that the presort overflow of detainees be housed on
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    ALY STUBS HIS TOE
    47 1 Reuter. NICE. Wed. Prince Al> Khan slightly injured one toe in an accident during the wer/k--end. Reuters learned here today. The injury will not delay arrangements for his marriage to film star Rita Hay worth, a member of the Prince's household said. Reuter.
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    COUNCIL MEETING
    24 1 The nex* Legislative Council meeting wih be held on Tuesday. May 17. 1949, at 10 a m at the Victoria Memorial Hall
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    Johore Sultan For U.K.
    50 1 Wlghnea» the Sultan of with the Sultanuh bj 00 a visit to England ifi n the Willr-m Ruys en M.iy I'lom Singapore. Sultan is taking this for health reason*, th«me understands His r.»ccnt operation has necessitatis «P. in Lon.ir.n. the Sultan Sultjuiah will stay at GrosHouse.
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    ISRAEL REJECTS U.N. PLAN FOR JERUSALEM
    76 1 A.P. LAKE SUCCESS. Wed. The C an. French and Turkish conciliation commission for Palestine reported today to the Secretary General, of the United Nations. Trygve Lie, that Israel had rejected the United Nations plan for international rule of Jerusalem. The commission said, however, that
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    AllM'f ll> Si HcfloatVfl
    29 1 AllM'f ll> Si HcfloatVfl STOP PRESS SHANGHAI, TODAY. 11. M. S. AMETHYS'I BEEN REFLOATED HER OWN EFFORTS. AD MIRALTY STATEMENT SAID. CASUALTIES MAY BE LESS THAN AT FIRST FEARED.
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    Malaya Has Seen Consort
    86 1 Ma laya Has Seen Consort H.M.S. Consort, 1,700--ton destroyer commar.Jed by Commander I. ii. Robertson, D.S.C. and Bar, was seen in action in Malaya recently against bandit hideouts north of Lumut in the Di»(U«tfs. She carries four 4 3 inch guns. H.M.S. London 10,000--ton cruiser flying the flag of Vice-Admiral
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    MARXIST PEACE RALLY OPENS
    97 1 U.P. PARIS, Wed.- Df PTederic Joliot Curie, France's CoouituiM atomic energy commi .•doner, keynoted the I'-fi 1 1 World Peace Congress todsv with a bitter attack on the United States Over 2,000 delegates from 6P countries attended the first session, including Paul Robe son. American Negro
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    HK DELEGATION FOR B. I. F.
    100 1 Reuter. I HONGKONG. Wed.- A 31--1 member delegation to the Bi iish industries fair left here j today in a chattered British 1 Overseas Airways flying-boat I which is due to arrive at Southampton on Sunday. The delegation, beaded by U Tat Chee. includes
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    Reds Attack On 400 Mile Front
    210 1 A.P. NANKING, Wednesday.—China's dormant mil uar erupted with a furious Communist offensive today along more than 400 miles of the vital Yangtze Valley. The bubble of peace, afloat for three months, hud burst. The Communists struck after the Government rejected the latest "peace otter"
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    REBELS ATTACK KATHA
    100 1 A.P RANGOON. Wed.—A rebel force of about 60 men attackt 1 the government outpost at toe North Burma town of Katha. 160 miles above Mandalay, M was officially announced today. A statement said that th Governmenl force surrendered Its arms and ammunition to the rebels after one
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    MALAYA'S FUTURE IN C'WEALTH
    335 1 Reuter London. Wed. Malaya's future in the "changing" Commonwealth depended on true cooperation between the peoples there and the practical experience of representative and administrative responsibility under British guidance, the London Times said today. "Tne first requirement, if Malaya is to go forward on the Commonwealth
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    CRUISER STANDS BY AMETHYST
    399 1 FLYING BOATS MAY DROP MEDICAL AID British Ambassador Protests To Peking Reuter-A.P.-U.P. SHANGHAI, TODAY. THE TEN THOUSAND TON 8-INCH GUN CRUISER LONDON TODAY REACHED THE YANGTZE RIVER PORT OF KIANGYIN, NEAR THE SCENE OF THE SHELLING OF THE BRITISH SLOOP AMETHYST, AND AID MEASURES FOR CRIPPLED
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    CANTON DROPS PAPER MONEY
    53 1 A.P. CANTON. Wed.- Gold Yuar Mill were discarded today a& legal tender in all business transactions in favour cf Hongkong or silver dollars. In the interior of KwangtttDg province, gold yuan was replaced by lice, paddy or silver dollars owing to unprecedented ■harp decline ol ihe
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    SMALLPOX SPREADS
    39 1 Reuter. DAT AVI A. Wed After tne smallpox epidemic at Batavia, I wncre 200 people died in two months, reports from several parts of Java and Sumatra announced that increasing num-1 bers of smallpox are occurring. —Reuter.
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    MALAYA WILL BE WELCOME IN C'WEALTH
    149 1 Reuter LONDON. Wed. Lord Mancroft, Conservative p**cr who recently visited Malaya, told the city of London young Conservatives today that an **imMMN fund and goodwill' exist.s in Britain towards the peoples of Malaya. "It is our intention to welcome them into the British Commonwealth
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    QUAKE KILLS 36
    25 1 A.P. SANTIAGO, CHILE. Wed.— Thirty-six people were reported filled and 60 Injured in a severe earthquake in Central Chile I esterday.- A.P.
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    Forrestt Loses Appeal
    129 2 GENERATOR CASE Till; Court ot Oinmial Appeal yesteuiay dtemisscd tht appeal 01 flft drnixandei G. Forrestt, <-nc of the pccufed in the R. A. F. tci case. ftgL Foncstt, who Is serving a four years' rigorous Im )risenuu-nt sentence on tw<, charges of criminal v lxpiiaey ami
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    ANOTHER PLANE FOR SHELL
    96 2 A third Grumman amphibian Waal flown into Ka'lang Airport yesterday. I tor Shell Company by Captain MacPherson. It was llown straight frori the factory in America. Th British Aviation Service flow the amphibian from America to England where Captain MacPherson took over on April 13 and
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    RAIL CLERK DISAPPOINTED
    51 2 Members of the Itailwav Clerical Services are disap pointed with the recommendations of the Court of Refer ence and of the Joint Salaries Commission Officer regarding upward revision of thei» aalaries. The Executive Committee Of the Railway Junior Officers arc meeting tomorrow to consider steps to be
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    5 BANDITS KILLED IN KEPAYANG HILL CLASH
    366 2 IPOH, Wednesday. Five bandits tilree men and two women were shot dead by security forces in a hill battle near Kepayang this morning. A flame-thrower, used for the first lime, and heavy mortar fire by Hussars flushed the area where the b«.ndits were
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    DANCE HOSTESS ACQUITTED
    39 2 Margaret Chan, i d.i;. hostess employed at the World Cabaret was acquitte and discharged by the First District Judge, Ur. BP. Shanks yesterday. She was charged with criminally intimidating Fatimah (Annie) binte Itahmad. anot'ier dance hoptess.
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    WOMAN COUNCILLOR
    52 2 The Hon. Tungku Aziza-i j Binte Tungku Petra. the first I woman member of either of t v .<* I Councils in Negri Sembilan, I since the inaugurations of *1 c 1 new constitution, was sworn Id this morning at Seremban at i the meeting of the State
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    Gamboa Awaits Reply
    100 2 A.P Corpral Lorenzo Gambo said he is awaiting an officia reply through the United Si ates Deportment on his rene wed application to n-join h l wile and two children in Me lbouine before deciding his next move. Garahoaj an American citizen as a reward for his
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    HEAVY FINES FOR LOTTERY OFFENCE
    165 2 FIVE Chinese were charge.! with assisting in tie ma-na-zcna'nt of a chap-ji-kee lotteiy in the Second pistriot Court* yesterday Two,* Tay IVck Leong and Soil Teng Hung were acquit ted. Fheh Teng Song and Au Soo Thung pleaded guilty, while Ng Mvi Teng was ictmd
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    HEIFERS ARRIVE
    26 2 Thirty-eight heitfera fron New Zealand arrived in Sing; pore yesterday aboard the 700(V ton wairimu. Tin heifers are lor the Sing tlpore Dairy Farm.
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    I Owe $100,000 Contractor Says
    273 2 MALAYAN RAILWAYS CIVIL SUIT fItTALA LUMPUR, Wednesday—Mr. A. Chc.'iapah. v well-know local contractor told the Supreme Court this morning that he was indebted to the tune of over $100,000 because of the contract, he had with the Malayan Railways. He was giving evidence in support
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    AIR FORUM
    42 2 "Forum of the Air" will I broadcast tonight over the B!ur» Network of Radio Malaya at the usual time 8.00 p.m". The members of the Forum will be: --Lady Gimson. Sir Han Ho Lim. Mr. Gerald Hawkins, an.. Archdeacon Gregory.
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      339 2 BLI'E NETWORK ricty; 12.45 New-; 1.00 be.- Sig. Time; 7.00 Clos- Down. ENGLISH PROGRAMMES Summary; HINESE PROGRAMMES 10.00 to 10.10 a.m. News 7.05 Khasidah; 7.30 Mubiv |2.<M> p.m. Si K Tune, Opeuirom X L SSS 2* I «'r^V a »'X Annet. A PfOg, Summary LOO Radio Orchestra; 1.30 Watt? bl5
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    TRADERS LOSE BATTLE OF DEADLINE
    191 3 4 LARGE number of Singapore barter traders have failed to clear their credit balances in Sumatra within the deadline, April 15, set by the Dutch authorities. A lew firms that tried, still have shi|>s on the way back from Sibolga, Djambi or Telok Betong. Dozens
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    SCCUTS KEEP ST. GEORGE'S DAY
    82 3 St. George's Day oa Saturday will be celebrated by the Boy Scout:- in Singapore. St. ge is the Patron Saint o! the Boy Sccuts Association Scouts will re-affirm -h' 1 pledge to serve God and their lellowmen. On this occasion the Chiei Scout ot the
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    'A WILD STATEMENT
    106 3 Sttvs judge LUM AH TKE. a :»0 y (!U IuIjouhm. chnrpwi with leu tint» with<i»-u Ma pit guiltv bafOffl the Mrxt DlB» trlot .fii.iRro. ui. e Bhiml ynstenlay. His tfusori wu nut Ik qii| Men aauttultcd by a >i<>t••••tiv an»! fun inuilo nifll pl«»a<« K'lilty when the
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    MUSLIMS MEET
    26 3 Phc Annual General meet'", oi the Singapore Muslim Leaga will be held at the Diamond Theatre North Bridge Hoad w Sunday at 10 A.M."
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    Death Dit Not Part Them
    65 3 Penang, Wed. Oon Chew Sin. wit** ol an teed < hines Ong Thean bye, who died last Friday at his home appal lie the Vlutong police station wept herseM to death the r.»".t day. ?sh»- was heartbroken ovar bar husband's deato. Day and night she
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    In The Dark But Not Deported
    132 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) HIS HIGHNESS Tungku Makhota of Johore was ™at Singapore docks yesterday evenn to meet i\ number of passengers in the Nieuw Holland, who spent the voyage from Australia rather in the dark. Thoy wore not being de ported by Mr. Calwell.
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    GRENADE THROWER TO DIE
    69 3 l app»al by a .hivan.se, t\ kasmori bin KoKiian, against sentence ot drain f«>«* throwing a handgreiiauV Into :i rrowded coif** shop In l au ioag l*at;:ir ar»-a sometime HkHl >«:«r, was dismissed hy (in- Court of Ortanhml Appeal ml erdaj. lii dismissing the app« the
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    Rubber Men Call For U.K.-Indies Tax Accord
    305 3 The Rubber Growers Association in London ifl now urging the signing of a convention between Indonesia and the United Kingdom to avoid douWfl taxation of British companies owning estates in Indonesia. The Association said in its annual report for 1948 that members considered
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    TAKING A LOAD OFF THE NURSE'S HANDS
    690 4  -  By hen Barker THREE inventions designed to minimise much of th? manual work in hospital nursing and to facilitate certain forms of medical treatment have been developed in Australia by the engineering staff of Melbourne's Austin Hospital for Cancer and Chronic Diseases, under
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    GENTLY DOES IT
    27 4 The "patient-lifting" apparatus is considered to be the most ingenious of the three inventions developed by the Austin Hospital's engineering section—Australian Odi- cial Photo.
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    INDIA-IN OR OUT?
    562 4 TIGHT statesmen, representing more than 500 E million people, are meeting in London to consider the future constitution of the Commonwealth. Upon the outcome of this conference depends the future not only of the membe--nations taking part in it, but also the shape of international politics. The
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    ARMY GRIP RELAXED
    486 4 A.P. THE Truman administration in the U. S. is now virtually stripped of the military men who once played important roles in the country's foreign policy. President Truman apparently did not plan it that way, despite the often severe criticism levelled at him during his first term
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    Something To Worry Over
    332 4 A.P YOUR attitude--on politics, money, women, «rcligion. table manners or anything else —can get out of order and cause mental illness, say Dr. Frederick C. Thorne, an American psychiatrist. Your attitude is the way you feel about something, or what you think is light. But lots
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    VOICE OF INDIA
    92 4 Reuter. N EVV DELHI, liadio j telegraph service between In and Japan wili be establish shortly, it was authoritativ. learned here. I Negotiations in this re«t:d have already been compM.M and, according t*. present phithe service will commence May. At present, radio telegnph connections exist between Bo'
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    REDS RALLY TO BANNERS OF IMPERIALISM
    361 5 PEACE CONFERENCE" ORGANISERS BLUSH A.P. i V A, {I tUfcd Mlow-inivrilrrs fro.., 60 countries r; Ified to fl Marxist Peace_ conference here today und-r the barer* oi Imperialism. To the chagrin of many stout-hearted Reds, in- j vestigation of the flags draping the hall
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    Actor Is Sued For £250,000
    140 5 A.P. PARIS, Wed. -Lawyers for Gauthier, producer of •> lt film "Portrait of an Assasm being made on the French Riviera, have hied a lit here against Orson for alleged breach of Gauthier also claimed return i0.000.00Q francs which he been advanced to foi work
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    SHE DIDN'T KILL HER DOG, FINED £15
    117 5 A.P. IPSWICH. ENGLAND. Wed. Bruce, the shiny-eyed dog of Mrs. Henry Mavrie Young is BtUI costing money to the impoverished survivors of a rural clergyman who died several weeks ago. In a magistrate's court the clergyman's daughter, Mrs. Eileen Chevallier, was ordeicd to
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    ZAMBOANGA 'COCONUT' KING MURDERED
    190 5 A.P. MANILA, Wednesday.—A 68-year-old American known as the "Coconut King of Zamboanga," was murdered on his large plantation in South Philippines on April 18. Reports reaching Manila today said the deceased, W. D. "Don" Robinson, died after five carbine shots v/ere pumped into his side. Robinson's
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    MANILA BARS U. S. BOY
    190 5 A.P. MANILA. Wed. Litt'e TomIthodes, Jr.. seven-year-old i deceased American vctf IJataan Island, is in with Philippine Immigration authorities. They said he cou'd not stay in the Philippines after his return from a visit to his grandm Ojkhill, West of Virginia. Tommy's mother held a
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    'Scott' Premiere To Help Fight Cancer
    228 5 HUSTLE IN WASHINGTON THE American Cancer Society is to benefit from the Washington pretended to before i.st night at the Playhouse Theatre of .John Mills polar ep.c Scott of the An t arctic." Sneeial g»est at the e%ent was to be Mr. Arthur Rank
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    Scripter Now
    161 5 F> EC, IN A LD B F.CKXVl VII, I» who played th' part oj Botccis ii ticolt n •*•> a n-/st of appendages to his name. They are', actor, uvthor, theatrical product r, ploy wright and critic. Now he can claim yet one more— scriptwriter. Beckwith has scripted
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    Independe
    190 5 LATELY we've htard a greai deal about the Independent Framo System that Britain is now using in studios. It was mentioned the other day bv film actor Gordon Jackson when he passed through Singapore en route from the U.K. to Australia to star in "Bitter Springs." He referred to
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    As Reporter
    134 5 MY reference io reporters hrimjs to vvnd the fact, ihif A/'c {/tt'nnrs:;, whom ri'fuy W'l renn eieer for hs r< mark"hly good p> rformmic< iis Fagin in Oliver Twist," mill play a Fleet Street gardening correspondent Mich'icl Bah'on s win Studios' production "The Lark." It is the story
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    Stardust
    192 5 FORTY -one year old Guy Middleton, considered to be one of the screen's most eligible bachelors, is to marry 32--y< ii-old New York socialite Anita Aiden TREVOR HOWARD, who will star in "The Gohlen Salamander," has flown from London to Tunisia on location. Director Ronald Neanic accompanied him LINDEN
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      275 5 Ipplßlh—lllj 170 passengers |mt oaf atn cmgrioi by MALAYAN AIKWWr These passengers are carried with IpOai and safety and- in comfort to their destinations. /aiuahU freight and mail is daily ac live red. In addition to the Malayan i.ntl external services, MALAYAN AIRWAYS ran help you to reach any pari
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      79 5 lit a ii\ Lit °y M ia w D I'D NEVER GET CARRIED, I j 1 I ah A ESS COULD MAPPTV THE KNOW PITCHEI, > N0 rr 11 CHASE J GAL-iAN'AH LO*S ST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN TH:, WHO >™| S WMV? MniM?i THET LCUT.'T HAS COME -Vy MOST DESIRABLE
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    ECA BAN HITS INDIES DOLLAR POSITION
    303 6 A.P. \EW YORK, Wed. Joseph W. vander Laun, commercial attache at the U.S. Consulate General in Batavia, told a news conference yesterday: 'The dollar exchange position of Indonesia is most critical." Prior to the suspension of Economic Co-operation Administration grants en December 22, vander
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    DEAL WITH RUSSIA
    44 6 A.P. NEW DELHI, Wed. Tne Food Ministry announcvl here] that India is buying 2G0.000 ten.'- Of wheat. 20,030 to i. maize from Aussia. The ollicial add selling Russia 20,00 > ton 1 raw jute, aral 7.000 t-.a. ot I a A.P. I
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    Produce Market
    123 6 A FAIR amount of business was done in the pepper market yesterday. Black pepper made another $4 climb on a very steady market. New York, on Tuesday, opened firm and active and closed qui?t Spot was done at 80V) cents. Singapore's produce prices yesterday as quoted ex-godown by
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    Along the godowns
    71 6 V\ air.; mi (44) Empire Hamble (Sheers); Nieuvv Holland (43 3); Wakdc (41); Sitsen (40); Belapur (38 il); President Buchanan (36): Bali (St/ 4); Kajula (31 2); Sarangan (17 8); Rengam (20); Trevince (23 4); Flying loud Irisbank (25 6); I) Donskoy (27 8); Seroel-Mausang-Maron (29 30;
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    Air And Surface Mails
    118 6 Air mails are rypfiftfii to arrive from: United Kingdom. Aden, Arabia, Canada, Europe, India, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan. Palestine, U.S.A., Cen tral and South America, Aus tra'ia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Siam, Batavia, Medan, Sourabaya and Padang. Latest time of posting; at the G.P.O. to the following places
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    MEAT SUBSIDY
    75 6 A.P. BUENOS A YRES, Wed. The Argentine government hps decided to subsidise the meat packing industry to keep pa- king houses operating, a well informed source said on Tuesday. British, United States an 1 Argentine packers are facet! with losses amounting to £1,--500,000 a month and- ha\ threatened
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    Jap Textile Drop
    47 6 A.P. TOKIO, Wed. lapan's export textile sale* dropped 30 pereenl in February as compared irj previous month. Tola* for February is U5*40,698.--898 compared to US$57,--011,334 in Jamiaiy. Sixty stwen percent of the February safes were to sterling areas. Product ion However showed substnntial upswing.—A.P.
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    Rubber Market
    98 6 THE rubber commodity market j opened quiet yesterday with i very small business passing. With little interest in evidence the market inclined to sag j towards the close. Closing prices were! Buyer? Sellers Mo. J May RSS 36 No. 2 May RSS 34 34!•_• No. 3 May RSS
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    WOOL SALES UP
    60 6 SYDNEY. Wed.—Australian I wool sales in the first nine months of the current season were valued at just over £144,--000.000. This is an increase of about 39 per cent over the corresponding period last season. I Nearly 2.30.000 hales were sold up to the 31st March last
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    JAP MENU CUT
    169 6 A.P VOKIO, Wed. Japan is asking mon- staple food for the coming fiscal year beginning .July 1, 1949. than she will get. Nevertheless she may get more food than she did this fiscal year. Associated PreM learnt the Japanese Government has asked fOI B.9MMMM lons Oj food
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    Restricted Markets
    16 6 Narrow and restrlrt«sl market* made tlea'ingi diriieti.'t in tin shares. Industrial Showed son; interest.
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    853 6 SINGAPORE, Wed Buyer-. Betters, Atlas lice 15.50 16.50 Ilex. Briu* Pref. 2.90 3.00 Olds. 2.22.. 2.32. 8.8. Petiol 10/3 41/3 B. M, Trustee 7.50 8.50 Cons. Tla Ord. 15 16 6 xd do. (P) 23/6 24/6 E. Utd. Asaur. 40.75 41.75 Estate Trust 7.00 8.00 Federal Dispensary
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    Acceptors For 2,000 Guineas
    152 7 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. Final acceptors for 2.000 Guineas to be run over one mile at NV.'/market, Wednesday Apr 27. were announced today as follows: The Thrustcr, Makarpura, Grant, Lighterman. Roc Dv Diable. Fonteaay. Lanarth, Nimbus, Star King. Bear Dance, Hindoatan. Iran. Barm a Park, Abernant. Hamp«len
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    PRISONS REACH TOP OF LEAGUE
    159 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. A set of thrustful and hardworking" forwards enabled the Prisons XI to trounce Majedie Garrison to the tune of six goals to one in a return Leagup encounter at the Padang today. Prisons won 5 —1 in the first round. The victory
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    WARDERS BEATEN
    31 7 The Rocklites Sports Club heat the Changi Prison Officers Club by one goal to nil in a Junior" B Group 1 soccer match played at St. George's Road yesterday.
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    FREEMAN WANTS TO QUIT
    311 7 Danes To Alter Method Of Training A.P. COPENHAGEN, Wednesday. J)AVE FREEMAN, American and world badminton champion, announced after his victory against Malaya's Ooi Teik Hock m the men's singles final of the Danish badminton championships, which concluded here on Monday, that he intended to tpiit badminton
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    WIN FOR IMPECCABLE
    64 7 Reuter EPSOM. Wed. Mr. R Mcllhagga's Impeccable won the City and Suburban Handicap here this afternoon Lady Fitzwilliam's Liberty Light was second and Sir Malcolm MacAlpincs Native Heath was third. Ten ran. Betting: t—l against Impeccable, B—l Überty Light, 9 4 favourite, Native Heath Won by three
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    SUTCLIFFE MAKES HIS MARK
    111 7 EASTBOURNE. Wed. Bert Sutcliffe, the 25-year-olu school master from Auckland, made his mark on his Arm appearance in English cricket when at the Saffrons ground here he hit a i".awless 95 to the New Zealand touring team against Col. L.C. Steven's Eleven. The one-day match WtoM
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    SCOTTISH PRAISE FOR MALAYANS
    293 7 IN a letter to the Commissioner-General, Mr, D. L. Bloomer, one of the Scottish representatives of the International Badminton Federation pays high tribute to the Malayan team, "whose superb playing ability was equalled only by their charm good manners and good sportsmanship.*" Mi. Bloomer arranged the
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    217 Entries For S.T.C. Summer Meet
    198 7 TWO hundred and seventeen entries have been received for the Singapore Turf Club s Summer (Governor's Cup) Meeting which will be held on Apr 80, May 4, 7, 11 and 14. Sixty-one are from Class I. 75 from Class II and 81 from Class
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    SLOW WORK AT BUKIT TIMAH
    142 7 TRAINING for the Singapore Turf Club's Summer (Governors Cupi Meeting started this morning. Oain? to heavy rain overnight and yesterday. the only tracks opened were the hill track and tne small sand track at the stables. Trainers Spencer, Turley, Davies, Yong Thau Yin and Rodgers
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    SPORE LAWN TENNIS ENTRIES
    570 7 ENTRIES for the Singapore l.iwn Tennis tion's Championships to take place at the Singapore Ci k> ket Club on May 2 are as ,O ME.VS OPEN SINGLES: h K. Tad!; Capt. V WhiVmo.o; If. I. J*f Ong Khcng Chuah: Maj. K. vS Wee: VV. n o'ng:
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    BRITISH GOLFERS START WELL
    82 7 KKCKMANSWORTH, Wed. British professional golfermade a good start to theb competitive season at Moor Park here toda>, doing better than the many overseas invaders in the opening round of the 'Silver King" £1,350 trailnament over 72 holes. Eddie Whitcombc. of Porters Park, Hartfordshire showed the way
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    Late Goal Saves Rovers
    512 7 (Tribune Soeeer Reporter) Chinese Athletes I Rovers S.C. 1 AN eleventh hour goal saved the Rovers Snorts Club from a one nil defeat at the hands of Chinese Athletes in an S.A.F.A. Senior League at .falan Besar Stadium, yesterday. Boon Leong took the credit of notching
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    LING TO SKIPPER
    41 7 A.P. LONDON. Wed.—W. Ling has been named referee by the English Football Associa. tion for the international match between Scotland and France at Glasgow on Aprd 27. The linesmen wdl be E. Thuiman and F. R. Gen^rd. —A.P.
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    Big Rice Harvest Foreseen
    111 8 A.P. WASHINGTON. Wed. The Department of Agriculture today estimated that the world rice harvest for August 1948. to July 1949. will be the largest since the wai-approximately 117.700.000 short tons. The Department said this was almost six per cent above the preceding year and about the
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    GANGSTER SHOT DEAD
    122 8 IPOH. Wed. Police struck another blow at the Kepayang Gang today when they shot dead an important member i Chung Loon Kwee. in a gun 1 duel and caught six other memhen of the gang. Those cap- tured included two women. Loon Kwee ran out of a
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    TWO-YEAR SENTENCE QUASHED
    100 8 An Indian lorry driver, M. Manickam, left the Colony Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday as a free man. His sentence' of two years' rous Imprisonment on a' charge ol retaining stolen property was set aside. In quashing the conviction and allowing the appeal. Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley (Pi
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    OUT EIGHTEEN MONTHS SOONER
    69 8 A Ceylonese service man. G. S. Baines. under sentence of seven years' rigorous im prisonment on charges of house-breaking and escaping from custody, had his sentence cut by 18 months in the Court of Criminal Appeal yasterday. The appeal of another service man, L. Graro. now
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    SIX WILL STUDY WELFARE IN U.K.
    240 8 tfUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday—Malaya may get six places in the United Kingdom for social welfare scholars this year. And the money for these scholarships may come from the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. Dr. C. P. Rawson. Chief Socia Welfare Officer revealed this at
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    NEHRU SPOT LIGHTED IN LONDON TALKS
    329 8 Reuter. LONDON, Wednesday. Airliners from Ihe i arth's four comers today brought Commonwealth If-a ders to a welcoming London for momentous talks (Tl co-operation with the future Republican India. The spotlight of world interest war? focu&aed on Prime Minister Javvaharlal Nehru of India, whose
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    BOAC Planes To Touch At Batavia
    205 8 BOAC Constellations will include Batavia n thoir United Kingdom-Australia route from April 23. Westbound services from Sydney to London will touch at liatavia on Saturdays while the eastbound eervii eg will < all at Batavia on Fridays. "Since the BOAC Hythe I ing boats
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    NEW U.S. ENVOY
    22 8 A.P WASHINGTON, Wed. Vice Admiral A. G. Kirk, U.S. Ambassador to Belgium was appointed ambassador to Moscow today. A.P.
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    AUSTRALIA URGED TO ADMIT ASIANS
    92 8 SYDNEY. Wed. Professoi MacMahon Ball of Melbourne University tonight urged the Australian Government to admit Asians into the country on a "system.* Ball, former British Commonwealth representative on the Allied Control Council in .Japan, urged that Uie immigration of a small number of Asians, say
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    Y.M.C.A. SOCIAL
    55 8 The V.M.C.A. membership lias been increased by 150 new comers who have joined the Association since January this year. A social to welcome the? i j has been arranged ;it the V.M.C.A. tomorrow at 7..:<» p.m. The Board of Director team captains, odiccrj- an I club leaders are
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    Churchill Calls On Europe
    292 8 Reuter LONDON. Wed. Iff. Winston Chut chill, renewing his for a united Europe here today, declared that "the people of Europe will have to sink or swim togctbci." '•We will have full faith that thr time has come when they will decide to swim." he told
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    They Arrived Yesterday
    93 8 Minister of Education in Mi South Australian State Go\ eminent, 6S-year-old Mr. K. I. Randall, (right) arrived ir Singapore yesterday on a holiday visit to Malaya. He w«» met on board the Nieuw Holland by Mr. Claude Massey, Australian Commissioner in Ma'ay Hie new Australian Traie Information
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    'Support Malays' Silcock Urges
    209 8 laONDON, Wednesday.—Professor T. IL Silcock, l'rofessor of Economics at Raffles College, Singapore, said in the Times today it was "vitally important that ar attempt should be made to strengthen the hands of those Malays genuinely prepared to work for a harmonious Malaya and not only for
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    LIAISON TALKS MAKE GOOD PROGRESS
    136 8 Kuala Lumpur. Wed. The foll< nng communique or. behatf of the Communities Liaison Committee was issued this afternoon by the Hon: Mi Yong Shook Un The < Sommuniiies Ltaii >n Committee, held meetings in Kuala Lumpur on April l!». and 10, it-; members continued tb**i"
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    JEWS REMEMBER
    43 8 A.P. W ARSAW, Wed. Thousands of Jews from all Poland gathered in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto yesterday to pay tribute to the estimated quarter of a million Jews who died in the revolt against the Nafta in 1943. A.C
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY General
    42 8 EAST-WEST SOCIETY: Mr. P. S. Raman on "The Seven j Pagodas," British Council Hail j —8.30 p.m. Y.M.C.A. Orchard Road: French class —5.30 p m. Concei t Practice —8 p.m. THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: Discussion, 8. Cairnhdl Koad-- 6.30 p.m.
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    Cinemas
    242 8 CATHAY: "Homecoming." with Clark Gable and Lan i Turner— 11 a.m. 1.45, 4.15, 6.io j and 9.30 p.m. ALHAMBRA: "The Enchar.t- 1 ed Forest" (in colour)—1.45, 4.16.45 and 9.30 p.m. CAPITOL: "Apart nnMit V<,: Peggy" (in technicolour> w-tii Jeanne C'rainc, William Hold'*:, and Edmund Gwcnn —11 a.m 1.45. 4.
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    Sport
    23 8 CER: S.A.F.A. League. Senior Div., S.C.C. v. Navy, Std i dium. Inter-school, Singapore Combined Schools v. Johore Combined Schools, Victoria 5 p.m.
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    BUDGET PASSED
    20 8 A.P. TOKYO, Wed.-The Japan House of Councillors tonight approved the 2,000,000.000,000 yen budget for 1949-50 fiscal year. A.P.
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    Rubber Growers Want Rigorous Punitive Action
    339 8 The Rubber Growers Association of i, > porting for 1948, calls for a campaign «5? suppression of the forces of disruption" r v Paying a tribute to planters and their report says: "Although security measur. ranised and carried out by the planter arr- now
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    CLAIM FOR Rs. 150,000 SHELVED
    87 8 An application for a Court order for the return of 150,000 rupees (Indian* was shelved by the First District Judge, Mr E. P. Shanks yesterday. application was made by Cheong Man Hock (SH, of Singapore. The money was .seized by the Marine Police from two
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    DISCHARGED
    40 8 MALACCA. Wed. With out recording evidence. Ml F.A. Chua. president, Mateccj Sessions Court, yesterday, discharged a Chinese detective who was charged with possession of a parcel of It 1 dian hemp. The dischagc dm not amout to an acquittal.
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    BOR's JAIL TERM CUT
    174 8 A British f 1 f Gorton ?2 ao« m sentence of seven rearTri gorous impris'. nni nt housebreaking an i theft his sentence re<lu C e<l to fa years" rigorous imprisonment yesterday at th.- rr>„ r; Criminal Appeal Gorton nad been i,,., fore Mr. Justice Taj
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