Malaya Tribune, 7 June 1949

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    65 1 MALAYA Tribune Bl THE PEOPLE I'OR THE PEOPLE Tel: "Tribune" Spore Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Taper in Malaya I Phone 3811 3 Nine Lines. Published simultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, and Penang. EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E
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    MOLOTOV BECOMES RED BOSS IN ASIA
    316 1 New Approach To China Forecast A.P. t PARIS, Monday. I i.! SPONSIBLE hurojjean diplomat said to-night that Russia's Deputy Prime Minister, Vvchaslav Molotov, has been placed in charge of his gentry* policies in China and the Far East. The informant forecast an early change
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    QUARANTINED PASSENGERS PROTEST
    99 1 Reuter. MELBOURNE. Mon. Some of the SoG British immigrants quarantined aboard the 21,000-ton liner Mooitan are to be allowed ashore afj ter petitioning the captain, i The passengers complained i that they had been "cooped up since Colombo" because i of suspected smallpox aboard. Health Minister Edward
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    THIS IS FIGHTING TALK
    86 1 Reuter. CANTON Men. Marshal w Nationalist Prime Minister, told a press eoaference here today: "Every jr/h of what remains of Nationalist China will be resolute- tended." Trie Premier said his Cabinet woold be a "lighting Cabinet," and would t talk peace again with the Communists eren
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    PITCHED BATTLE
    36 1 BUENOS \IRES Moq. na'ists from gentina. using dynamite nsnt revolver- h» 1 fAug;ht a pitched battle with Bolivian troops in the Bolivian border town of Villazon. according to reports hue Arg '.tmo-Boiivian frontier today.
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    Cup Team Go To A Dance
    113 1 The Malayan Thomas up Team completed their lirst week of heavy social und spirting engagement.- l>m nlgrM al Ih<* Victoria Memorial Fall when the Singapore Ha hnii t< n ■■nrtafioa gave linnet 1 and dance in their honour. They brought the fanwan Thomas Cup
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    LABOUR LEADERS UNDER FIRE
    286 1 "Cabinet Are Prima Donnas" BLACKPOOL, Friday.—Government and Labour Part;, leaders came under heavy lire turn some of their followers wh£n the Labour Party's annual -eanferenrc opened today at this »audy Summer 4) 1 a >'■ giounel Cabinet Ministers heard themselves described as •prima donnas*' and accused*
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    Burma Gurkhas Appeal To Govt
    130 1 A.P. RANGOON Mon. Burma- 1 bom Gurkhas are trying to follow up a memorandum to Premier Thakin Nu with a personal nterview seeking representation in the Burmese Parliament, it was authoritatively stated here today. These Gurkhas, who claim a 100.000 resident population in Burma, sent
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    TROOPS REPEL BANDIT ATTACK
    63 1 segamat. Today.—Using handgrcnades, Bren guns and automatic weapons a l/10th Gurkha scouting party repelled a charge by a mob of about 80 bandits near a bandit camp in this area yesterday. The Gurkhas escaped from the bandit tiap. killing one of the attackers. They also recovcied
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    Moral Rearmament Makes A Pledge
    126 1 Reuter. Caux Sur Montrcaux, Switzerland, Mon. Delegates from 10 Far Eastern and Pacific nations today pledged themselves at the World Assembly for moral rearmament here to "carry forward the fierht to remake the the world through the superior ideology of moral change." The delegates, who
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    AUSTRALIAN PETROL OFF THE RATION
    121 1 A.P. MELBOURNE, Mon.- Petrol rationing has finished in Aus- i tralia for the time being. A High Couit decision thai.; the National Security Liquid Fuels Regulation introduced in j HMO is now inva'id, mean.'- that the Commonwealth Government no longer h is power under the
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    DRESS REHEARSAL
    70 1 Early office-bound workers in .Singapore this morning had an ..lexpected 'side-show' when the ervice and police units which re taking part in the King's .Jirthday Parade on Thursday tad a practice parade Oft the J adang. Traffic police diverted the .raffic at various prints, a f ew Service
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    SENTENCE UPHELD
    43 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Mon. The T nited States Court of Appeal .oday upheld a contempt of conviction and a US$l,--20 000 finn against John t wis. President of the United "ines Workers Union for fail.ag to call off a 1948 coal strike.—U.P.
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    Big Four Plan More Secret Talks
    157 1 Reuter. PARIS, Monday.—The Big Four Foreign Ministers met In secret session for two and a half hours here today, it was their third successive secret session and the 13th of the present Council of Foreign Ministers. After today's meeting delegation sources said that tomorrow's
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    WEST HITS BACK IN GERMANY
    83 1 U.P. BERLIN. Mon.—The Western powers today charged Russia with violating the New York blockade lifting agreement and served notice that trade between Western and Eastern Germany would not be resumed until Russia restores freight traffic into Berlin. Western representatives at the four power trade and
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    RAFFLES DINNER DANCE
    61 1 •'This is the golden year for Rafllea (nstittttkm. At last the dream of Raffles ha; come true —there is a University,'' the Hon. Mr. Frisby, Director cf Education, told 200 members and friends ot the Old Rafflesian's Association at their Founder's "Jay Dinner and Dance last night.
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    Another Tribune Scoop
    216 1 AFTER PERCIVAL WINSTEDTf EVER since Lieut-Gene- j ral Pereival's great tx>ok "War in Malaya" rionrTnaVl in the .Malaya j Trilmne last week, readATI have been rinnlnj; up j and asking. "What have I you pat lor us next?'' Starting in iie\i Sun- day's Tribune, we will be-
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    S'PORE TO INCREASE BIZONIA TRADE
    240 2 SINGAPORE wtU shortly have a big Import tn.de «ilb tte British 8 ,nd American zones of Germany. A wide range of German goo<.s. ~op« laf in Malaya before the war. can now be imported. The import trade with Germany has been negligible since the war.
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    Baby Holds Up Case
    83 2 JOHORB BAHRU, Mon A 24-year-old Indian. Duraisann. charged with kid- napping a minor, was inform- J c<J by the Magisratcs' Court today that his alleged victim had given birth to a baby. Inspector James, prosccut- ing, told Magistrate Che j Nasi) that the Police were unable
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    FINED $2O
    32 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.Chong Ah Tec. a .">2-ycar-old driver, was fined $20 in the Magistrates' Court today for carrying four passengers in his private car without a Public Service Vehicle Permit
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    He Pledged His Card For A Cup Of Coffee
    111 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. THIRTY-NINE- YEAR OLD K. Manickam told the Police he mortgaged his I* tity card tot lo cents when he was unable to pay for a cup cf coffee at .*5 o'clock this morning. This was disclosed by the
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    Hatta In S'pore
    103 2 Dr. Mohamed Hatta. vice-Presidenl and Premier of the RepubHc of Indonesia, stopped for an hour at Kallang Airport Sunday while his plnnc made an emergency refuelling. Dr. Hatta wa.. flying with an eleven-man delegation in a t'nited Nations Indonesian Commission plane from Bangka Island in the Rhio
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    More Cyclists, Less Trishas
    122 2 |yjTIIIN five months, from January to May, the number of cyclists in the Colony has risen from 71.587 to 81,870, an increase of 10,283. the Municipal Registrar of Vehicles' Office reported yesterday. But while there are mom cyclists, the number of trishas registered during; the same
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    SCHOOL SPORTS
    13 2 The English College Annual Athletic Sports will be on June 22.
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    HE FAILED TO RE-REGISTER IN JOHORE
    65 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— when Traffic Police stopped a private car fo; a traffic offence yesterday, they found that 22-year-old Lim Hsu Phong had failed to re-regis-ter in Johorc. As a sequel. Lira was fined $20 in the Magistrates* Court today foi failing to registci
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    ARMY RECRUITS
    40 2 MALACCA. Mon. Tile A nny Recruiting Officer will visit Malacca on June 13. 14 and 15 to select candidates to serve as Locally Enlisted Personnel in the Army. They will be trained in technical skills and other jobs.
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    Off To England
    33 2 Miss Doreen Mitchell of the Statistics Department, Singa- i pore, who sailed in the Bibby Line's Darsrdshire l;>r a nine- j mouth coUrse on a British C ouncil scholarship award.
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    CHANDU CHARGES
    43 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Bail of SlOOO in two sureties was granted in the Sessions Court yesterday to Lee Wee who claimed tiial on two charges of possession of chandu and permitting his house to be used fdr the consumption of chandu.
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    New Books At Raffles Library
    259 2 The following n« w books are beinß added to Raffles Libraiv A Naturalist in Sarawak. E. Banks; The Reiun of Queen Victoria, Hector Bolitho; Poemnom the Persian. J. C. E. I'owen: Poets Story-Tellers. Ix>rd David Cecil; Painting as« a Pastime. Winston S. Churchill. The Descent
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      362 2 BLUE NETWORK Kna, s K(fl "«t p c .,ai s KNfil IKH PRi7rßvVwi?< Star—Alexander Kipnis; 10 p.m. 6.10 K. B. Sundrambal; «.30 Duet io »7,! flu London Studio Melodies. No. 22 Songs; «.45 World Affairs; «.V, «CS W,th Peter Ywrk and His <°»- "ecorded music; «.58 n«sh, B i 27"
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    STAFF APPROVES SHB PENSION PLAN
    161 3 THE Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association favoured in principle the Board's plan to establish a pension scheme for its clerical workers similar to the Government pension scheme. This was stated yesterday by Mt. Ycng Heap Woh. President of the Association, in an Interview with The
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    FAREWELL TO DIRECTORS
    55 3 Members of Trinity College Choir of "Messiah' fame will hold farewell dinner tonight at 7.30 o'clock in honoui of their music directors. Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Thomas, at the Wesley Methodist Church Hall Mi", and Mrs. Thomas, will shortly leave for the United States on retirement
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    Forces Kill 8 Bandits
    158 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Eight bandits were shot dead, several were wounded and one captured by security forces operating in the Federation yesterday. Among those killed were a notorious Kedah bandit leader and a woman terrorist of Johore. Four of the oandits were killed when they attempted
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    GURNEY LAUDS SULTAN
    76 3 SIR Henry Gumey. Federation High Commissionci. said today at the Installation of H.H. Sultan of TrenggaßU. "Your Highness bai served with distinction in the Trengganu Civil Service. in the Ccurts, Land Office and the Secretariat shewing a keen interest in the welfare of the common people. "During
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    TRADE WITH JAPAN SOON
    97 3 Kuala Lumpui. Mon.--Nego--iatiens for the next trade agreement between Japan and the sterling areas will commence on July 15. Mr. E.R. —indeman. economic adviser to -he United Kingdom Liaison Mission in Tokio, said in an address to representatives of local trading interests heie today. Replying to
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    MUSICAL FILM FROM EGYPT
    323 3 FROM the studios of the Nile Film Company in Cairo ha* come an outstanding Egyptian movie with no fewer than 15 i song hits ?ung by two stars who are brother and sister in real I life and who play similar roles in the picture. The
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    PRAISE FOR RAFFLES SCHOOL
    69 3 Raffles Institution has played its full part in the life of Singapore. .Mr. K.M.R. Menon, senior master, raid this at the Founder's Day function held at the Institution yesterday. The president of the Old Rafflcsian Association, Dr. C. J. Poh presided. Among those who attended were
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    Sir Hugh Writes Of Malta
    142 3 BRIEFED To Attack.' a Hoddor Stouglition book, written by Air Marsh r Sir Hugh L'.oyu, c-in-c Air Command Far East, unveils the real story of the battle of Malta in the Second World War. This battle was nothing less than "a life and death struggle
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    Advice To Unions
    173 3 ALL unions participating In the proposed Trade Union Council, sponsored by Singapore Legislative Councillor Mr. Lim Yew Hock. unadvised to guard against any tendency for the Council to become a mouthpiece of Government. The ACSU Cong, official organ of the Army Civil Service Union, gives this warning
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    'Lone Seoul' Returns
    135 3 SCOUTMASTER Neoh Teik Hung of the 34th. Penang troop (S.XI.) has returned to Singapore utter attending the South West Pacific Jamboree at Wonga Park. Victoria, as a member of the Malayan Scout Jamboree contingent, and a five months tour 01 South and West Australia. He has the
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    Teck Chye Sings A Song
    120 3 YIJMi Tcck Chv\ v oibt v ol Malay a s i Cup Team, sang "Glow Boat to China' to the 200 people pr#" Bant al the inaugural meeting ot the International Rhythm Chih at the Empress Hotel on Sunday. Both Malaya ThOßUa* Cup Team and
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    LORRY CARRIED TOO MUCH FISH
    85 3 JOHORE BAHRU. M Tan Ah Tee. a 27-ycai-oUI lorry driver of Jeram Choii, Pontian, was fined $20 in the Magistiates' Court today for carrying fish of an excess weight of more than 120 cwt: than allowed in the haulage permit for his lorry On a
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    OFF TO EUROPE
    42 3 Three from Malacca—Mr. and Mrs. Chan Tcck Chye and their son Mr. .Charlie Chan will travel to the United Kingdom and the Contint il of Europe on a holiday They leave Singapore by Coi teflo tion on June 15.
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    WILL IT WORK?
    590 4 THE French strategy to appease Jndo-Chinese 1 nationalism and thus wean the moderates away from Ho Chi-minh and his Communists begins to evolve. President Vincent Auriol has sent a telegram to ex-Emperor Bao Dai promising a "large measure of amnesty for Vietnam war criminals" after Bao Dai
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    Malaya's War Damage
    592 4 London Joins The Controversy The following correspondence, initiated in the London Daily Telegraph by Sir George Maxwell, former Chief Secretary of the Federated Malay States, is reproduced because of its interest to Malayan readers. 'Scorclied Earth' Restitutions SIR —The offer of £20 million to Malaya, In the
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    MALAYA'S LOSSES
    243 4 Sir- Sir George. Maxwell's letter exemplifies the confused and parochial thinking which has bedevilled the question of v.ar losses throughout the Commonwealth. Wis it in the intetest of the United Kingdom alone to deny Malaya's ruhtei and tin to the Japanese? Had Malaya Itself no Interest in this,
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    A STRONG CASE FOR RECIPROCITY
    593 4 SIR— Before Mr. A. J. Champion. M.P.. rushes into the Malayan war damage controversy he shoulu first learn something about Malaya. He asks why. if the United Kingdom is tc make a contribution towards the rehabilitation of tuV countiy, the people of Malaya should not
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    Kenya Man Captures Four White Rhinos With Lasso
    522 4 Reuter. THIRTY-throe-year-old, Cur Hartley, who hunts wild animals with a lasso, expects to net 40,000 dollars (about £10.000» from an American Zoo for his latest captures two white rhinos, among the rarest of al! animals. Carr Hartley confounded the critics who said
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    PORTABLE SETS
    57 4 U.P. HAMILTON ONTARIO NOW it's portable television sets—Remington Rand is starting to build portable television sets for use by busi-ness-men. Some of its uses are police observation of suspects, large screen projection lor army and navy training, and the identification of cheeks and documents. It can also be
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    'Turn Factories Into Social Centres'
    804 4  -  By ROBERT BROWN Reuter. SIR Noel Curtis-Bennett, one of Britain's best known social welfare and sporting personalities, has issued a bold appeal to British Industry to transform factories and workshops into community centres. "Tne factory is the natural community centre in an Industrial society whose
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    ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AFTER COMPANY'S DEMAND NOTE
    418 5 A who Killed her^^a^ tryiriß to gas jierself after she had received a monstrously worded letter" from a furniture company.was set free at Leeds Assizes UrnUUre com She pteaded guilty to manslaughter and was bound over for two years. Mr. Justice Finncmore said: "1
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    GAOL INTRUDER
    38 5 Reuter-AAP. ADBLAXD&, Mon. A thief broke into the Adelaide Gaol recently. He climbed a 4-ft. wall, broke a window of shed, stole a pair of size six boots, and escaped without being seen 01 heard. Reuter-AAP.
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    Unfinished Chop Was The Clue
    70 5 Unfinished Chop W as The Clue Reuter. on .on-Trcut. Mon. instead of the fingerprints led co» ven fto two men who *m i clothing shop, wen hungry to a chop fi fs*»g for goods to Id* I by the *0f the shop and 1 hurried exit, leaving teeth t were
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    WINE BOTTLE HAD A MESSAGE
    60 5 V". -ake bottle was r.ontlv on the t pioudhoe Island, 30 Mackav North the bottle was a lettei. languages .rag sh version said i botti< was thrown into <ea between the New coast and Lord Ifai ml. ttk 1f..0r .aid it Janese train- Maru It
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    MICHAEL GETS AWAY WITH IT
    72 5 LONDON. Mon —The landlord did not care for Michael j I q Michael swore, he Jtavtd out late at night and ■tc blocked in the front door with an iron bar. land- VI toe PWfJJJy to:d the -jcge. He asked the court to S Michael
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    SCIENCE SAYS "HULLO TWINS"
    316 5 LONDON* Mon. Barring iccidents and bad luck—is at length of our lives cut-and-dried by our hereditary Jiake-up when we are born I who wanted to W out made a study of 933 pan of elderly twins. They m report that the answer I fa That conclusions,
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    'Hello' Is Taboo In New York
    140 5 A.P. NEW YORK, Mon.— I "H»*llo" is taboo—no bet- j tor than a grunt—when j you are answering tele- i phone. j Bo says the New York Telephone Company. I which has started a new phase of its campaign to j clear the wires
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    The Customer Is Right Again
    188 5 A.P. LONDON, Monday.—The "Buyers' Market" has returned to England. But, say most merchants, it was gone so long most salesmen have forgotten how to sell. To teach salesmen how to say something to customers other than "sorry, we are all out of that item." a
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    DISGUSTED
    32 5 A.P. BANtJKi >X Mo;.. UdMMMn on Bangkok a mam street threw a Chinese m? reliant out of the .eitomobile when they learned ;>-eir di?gust. that I*4 victim didn't have any money.—A.P.
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    'Some Husbands Would Have Wrung Her Neck'
    232 5 LONDON, Monday.—A wife told hpr bridegroom on the morning after the wedding that she was expecting a child, which she later admitted was another man's, said Judge O. Temple-Morris, at at Swansea Divorce Court. "Some husbands would have wrung her neck," added the
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    SET A THIEF TO CATCH....
    51 5 A.P. BANGKOK. Mon. Authorities had to look into, puson to lind the right OUJ) to train a special police suppi ession unit how to handle plotters against the government. The right was an aimy colonel arrested in connection with an attempted coup last Oct. 1.
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    SUNDAY IS A BAD DAY FOR THE POLICE
    88 5 A.P. OKLAHOMA CITY. Mon. —Oklahoma City policemen can take bandits in their stride, but the force is having too many casualties helping invalids get to church. That is why Inspector Roy Bercman ordered discontinuance of the Sunday morning service of driving invalids
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    THEY TRIED TO SELL TO THE WRONG MAN
    75 5 A.P. BANGKOK, Mon. In the morning, two men posed as representatives of a business and made off illegally with 1,000 gunny bags valued at 8,500 bahts U'Ss42s> from Chop Seng Hong Lee. That same afternoon, the same two men tried to sell
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    SWEETS CONTROL?
    32 5 A.P. BLACKPOOL Mon. A high Govei nnient spokesman warned on Sunday that sweets would go back on the lation lists in Britain "unless some greedy people mend their way*".- A.P.
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    Panthers Visit This Government
    115 5 Reuter. NAGPUR. Monday. Prowling panthers have created a minor "crisis" at Pachmari. summer capital of the Central Provinces Government, 60 miles from here. Pachman s bazaars and residential quarters are frequented by panthers which even pay "courtesy calls on government oftices and ministers' residences. A minister's
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    THE BIG COLD WAR Over MONEY
    1180 6 A.P. I ONDON, Monday. A vital "cold war" over the li values of money is raging behind the stone faced treasuries of Europe. "Should we devalue, how much, and when?" is the question. The United States favours devaluation of European currencies. Most European exerts
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    ATOM ORE FOUND
    53 6 A.P. MELBOURNE, Mon.-Radio-active minerals with high uranium content have been discovered in the Hartz Range, 200 miles from Alice Springs, says the Department of Supply and Development. Geologists reported that uranium minerals occurred in the same bodies as those of mica, and they were present over a
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    Swiss Exports Up
    155 6 SWITZERLAND'S foreign trade during the first quarter of this year had an appreciable decrease in big adverse trade balance compared with the same period last year. This is due to a fall in imports and an increase in exports. The total for imports is just a little
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    Dark Clouds At Labour Rally
    324 6 A.P. I ONDON Monday.—Difficulties on both the economic 4 and Labour fronts from themes for discussion at the Annual Conference of Britain's ruLmg Labour Fartv, opening today at Blackpool. A nationwide railstrike threatens the country. The Board which runs-the state owned railway is fi cine
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    —AND THE 'BAD WEATHER'
    59 6 A.P. BLACKPOOL. Mon. A forecast that a return to Conservative government in Britain would mean "industrial friction came from Labour Party loader Herbert Mori lHOn on Sunday night. It was the third time he has forecast heavy weather between capital and labour if the Socialists are
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    'CAN DO'
    63 6 A.P. NEW YORK. Mon. Ghanhyamdas D. Birla one of India's wealthiest industrialists, >aid that he belives the world -an do business with a ComBUmiat ruled China- providing the Reds establish a stable government. "If the Communists give the people a stable regime, i see no /eason why you
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    CARGO TALLY
    45 6 The Singapore Harbour Board handled a total of 380.879 freight tons in February. A total of 243.842 tons "were discharged and 137.037 loaded during the month. The total handled at the roads was 136,018 and the total at the wharves 244.861 freight tons.
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      715 6 MANSFIELD CO. LTD. {lueerporatod 1* Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE CAirUr'i optica to proceed Ha other porta to load ul discharge cargo. SAILINGS FROM U.K. ft U.S.A. •Troilus" clue frou UJ£. *n P° r t "Deucalion" .due from U.K 'une ••Phrontls" from U.S.A. June 17 "Eurypylus" from U.K June 18 "Memnon"
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      335 6 AUCTION SALE OF Valuable Freehold Leasehold Singapore Properties. To be held at our saleroom, No. 10 Chulia Street. On Wednesday. Bth June 1949. at 2.30 P.M. Lot 1. Freehold land situate at Belilios Lane, area 4.751 sq.ft. (VACANT POSSESSION). (Messrs. R. C. H. Lim Co.. Solicitors). Lot 2. Freehold land
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      271 6 NOTICjES^ SINGAPORE DIPROVEMENT TRUST Tenders are invited for erection of 24 blocks of two storey flats at Old Race Course. Tender Form. etc. may be >btained at the Office of the Trust on payment of a deposit of $100 which will be refunded if a bona fide tender is submitted.
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      670 6 BOUSTEAD CO., in Lloyds Agents in Singapore, Ticket Agwts For Malayan Railway. GLEN LINE accepting re* WBRFi t ;!.ENORCHY (Calls Alexandria. Genoa) n j QQf ENEARN 2* Jun« V FROM U.K. FOR STRAUS, HONGKONG, SUA JAPAN. T Due S* BRECONSHIRE In Port GLENGARRY *S .Tune giT RADNORSHIRE 7ST"-"" no,^4js CARRIERS
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    GOALMOUTH DUEL
    26 7 An incident near the Singapore hin«>u g<>ul during their game against the Negri mbilan CMpeaf at lalan Beaar Stadium on Srm.—Tribune Picture. -Tribune Picture.
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    REST GET THEIR 31 IN 39 MINS.
    225 7 Score 5 Wkt Victory JHE Rest batting machinery set to work yesterday morning and knocked off the 31 runs required lor victory after 39 minutes of play. They defeated the Europeans* by five wickets in the 21st annual Clarke Cup cricket* match played
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    Scoreboard
    93 7 Europeans— Ist Inning* 9\ The Rest—lst Innings |ff Europeans—'nd Innings no THE REST ,>M) |XM> (i> C. Thuraisinsrham low Syrett 16 G. Clarke c Needham b Syrett S CSMomg Thiam Siew b Syretl 5 B. K. Sundrum b Kenvwii 1 R. H. Bain not out H Y. Madari Robertson
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    MALAYS WITHOUT THREE STARS WIN ONE — NIL
    415 7 MALAYS WITHOUT THREE STARS WIN ONE NIL Tribune Soccer Reporter Malays 1 Royal Navy 0 MALAYS managed to get away with a one-nil victory over the Royal Navy in a Singapore Amateur Football Association Community league game at JalaJl Besar stadium yesterday. The Malays showed superiority in footwork and initiative
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    JOLLILADS KEEP ON WINNING
    157 7 A LARGE ciowd watched the JoMilads A.U. trounce Shell 6.C. by six goals to two in a Junior B. soccer fixture played at the Geylang Stadium yesteiday. Playing with good team work throughout, the JoMilads forwards gave the Shell defenders no respite after the fir3t goal
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    MISS TUCKEY WINS
    40 7 Reuter. NOORDWIJK. Mon. -Miss A. Tuckey of Britain won the women's singles title in the Dutch lawn tennis championships hei c today, defeating Mrs Helen Rlhbany of the United States 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 in the 6W Reuter.
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    SNAPS AND PHARMINDA GO FAST
    61 7 I/UALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Snaps and Pharminda did winning gallops on the Kuala Lumpur track this morningWednesday's candidates were the main workers. The track was in good condition. Pharminda (E. Donnelly) and Snaps (Spencer) did the three in 37 2/5 seconds. Courtenay (Bagbv) ran the three
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    Cerdan Defends Title Next Week
    204 7 A.P. DETROIT. Monday. gOXING fans here are looking forward to Detroit's first championship fight in a year and a half— the Marcel Cerdan-Jake La Motta bout on June 15. Cerdan, the rugged world middleweight champion from Casablanca, and New York's tough La Mottta will meet
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    NO GOALS AT ST. GEORGE'S RD
    37 7 in a Junior B Group 2 S.A.F.A. league match at St. George's Road colourful soccer was witnessed between the Serangoon Association and the C.V.M.A. The game ended in a goalless draw.
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    CAPITOL CUP
    38 7 i JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— I FARELF Training Centre ettI minatcd 221 Vehicle Co. from i the Capitol Cup competition I by two goals to nil today and j thus qualify to meet Pcmuda in the semi-final.
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    S.R.C. BATS IN FORM
    231 7 THE S.R.C. "A" team beat R.A.F. Tengah by 168 runs in a cricket match played at Tengah on Sunday. The following were the scores:— s. R C« Ist INM\<;s J d'Souza b Warren 1 P. Scully b Morgan 2\ J. Qa fist an nrw stocker 45
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    JLTA C'ships Begin Thurs.
    598 7 (From Our staff Correspondent» JOHORE BAHRU. Monday. —Yon bin Mian, Johore's tennis champion for nearly ten years, will be defending his singles title in the Johore Lawn Tennis Association Championships this Thursday. Yon has never been defeated in competitive tennis in Johore and is likely to
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      196 7 BOOKINGS FOR PASSAGE FREIGHT CAN NOW BE MADE to INDIA, MIDDLE NEAR EAST ALL POINTS IN EUROPE American-operated P.O.A.S. takes you direct to Bangkok. From Bangkok you travel to your destination by th«-world-famous Norwegian airhne Braathcns S.A.F.E. Travel the S.A.F.E. way by 4-cngined SKY MASTERS As usual the SINGAPORE-BANGKOK Business
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      72 7 fPAT'S 0' TICKET, Y SOUNDS VERY 1 rcvcM c r fc&T <ra v YOU'RE GONNA FIGHT J INTERESTING < frtiiv 5. c£ U EX-CHAMP. 1 fso :V < jJn W VERY SMAR~ F HE..0.7 vEA^HHT^rTI -.«V ELMER PEACCN Vn-:ES HAPPY i Y°' FANS ULD TWO 30IDS ~\STRATE6n < k A
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    The Baker Had A Dog's Life
    156 8 A.P. SYDNEY, Mon. —A loaf of bread fell from the baker's cart Jin quiet Lee Street, Enfield, a < Sydney suburb. It should not have caused all the fuss it did. The baker stopped his cart and ran towards the loaf. So did two
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    MULLOY WINS
    33 8 A.P. LONDON, Mon. Gardner Mulloy of United States beat .W. C. Canny of China 6-8, 6-2, I 6 1 in the first round of the Kent Championships on MonI day. -A.P.
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    HONGKONG DEFENCE TALKS HAVE BEGUN
    311 8 Reuter—A.A.P. HONGKONG; Monday. Mr. A. V. Alexander, ter, arrived here today by air from Singapore for two m n levei v fence talks and an inspection of Hongkong's defence installations. r p<ll His aircraft, in which he was accompanied from Singapore oy --j Sir Neil
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY General
    98 8 Y.M.C.A.: Tenni? and VolleyBall 5 p.m. Commercial Classes J 5.30 p.m. French Classes 5.o1 I p.m. Recorded Music Recital S 1 p.m. Adventists' Evangelical meeting 7 p.m., St. John Ambulance: Parade 6 p.m. S' PORE YOUTH COUNCIL: Committee Meeting, British Conn- t cil Hall, Stamford Road
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    Cinema
    178 8 CATHAY: "The Blue Lagoon" with Jean Slnunons. 11 a.m. I.45. 4.15, 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. CAPITOL: "The Street With No Name" with Marke Steven*. Richard Widmark, 11 a.m.. 1.45, 4, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. REX:. "Station Went" with Dick Powell and Jane Greer. II, 1.45. 4.00, -6.30 and 9.30
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    Sport
    18 8 LEAGl'E SOCCER: S.R.C. vs. R.A.F. Chantji- J. Bcsar; Jnr A. Grp. 1: R.A.F. Tengah vs. BODCA Geylang.
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    HOLLYWOODODDITY
    33 8 WARTIME economy marches on! Five hundred strawberry sandwiches, handed out to extia players in a movie scene were thin blocks of wood with a red stripe painted aiound the edge of each.
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    Compton Delights With Hurricane 182
    390 8 Reuter. LONDON, Monday. HENIS COMPTON delighted the 30,000 crowd at his benefit match at Lords today by hitting up a hurricaiie 182 for Middlesex against Sussex. Wading into the bowling. Compton got his runs in two and a half hours and hit 20 fours. He
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    Jogja Prepares Its Own Revival
    170 8 A.P. BATAYFA, Monday. President Soekarno observed his 48th birthday at Bangka today while officials of his scattered Government in Java and Sumatra prepared to revive the Republican administration in Jogjakarta. Dr. Mohammed Hatta and ten advisers sat down for talks with members of the Republic's
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    Rest Didn't Like The Shuttles
    465 8 SUNDAY'S BADMINTON I By SIHTTLE 1 MEMBERS of the Rest of Malaya team arc indignant over the firm decision of the non-playing captain of the Thomas Cup champions, Mr. Lim Chuan Geok, in ignoring the protests of players over the type of shuttlecocks used in
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    'RUTH' WINS SAIL RACE
    208 8 IN excellent sailing weather 14 craft belonging to membera of the Royal Singapore Yacht Club yesterday evening (Mon.i completed their twoday sailing race round Singapore Island. "Ruth", a 16-foot Sydney j Harbour Staff belonging to 1 air. E. G. Holiday, won the complete race, with Mr.
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    Gateway To Britain
    42 8 Transatlantic visitor* to Britain will nevt year enter the country through lata aavtaj side station, the world*! longest Bid largest arrival station at a great port, v hit ii a built beside the dock where the biggest liners berth.
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    but Wint break own ¼ mile Record
    523 8 but Wint break own mile Record Amerira Sweeps The ISoard I Reuter. From VERNON MORGAN WHITE CITY STADIUM. Monday. THE United Stales team of athletes which h to Eritain for the six -nation 11-event inter national contest here this afternoon swept tin board scoring eight firsts and three seconds for
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    SOMPONG ARRIVES
    16 8 Nai Sompong, welterweight boxing champion of Singapore, arrived here yesterday by plane from Bangkok.
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    RECORD BREAKER
    18 8 Arthur Wint. the colour*") giant, who clipped sec. off his hntisb r, /.a lor Use yards.
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    Useful B.P.
    59 8 The following will represent the Useful Badminton Party against the Marigo I Badmmtajl Party in a friendly game cf badminton at thClerical Union Hall tonight. The fisst game will be played off at 7 p.m.: Sng Haw Pah. Teo Loon Eng. John Chua. Chan Mun Kit, D. F.
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    STONE-WALL BATTING AT CARDIF
    185 8 Reuter. CARDIFF, Mon. Eval crowd of 15.000. a real for the Cardiff ground,* not inspire the crirket ween Glamorgan ami the* Zealandcrs on the I r of their match here. B»W was cautious and then- long periods 'in which M was scored. The New I c'.ared
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    COTTON FIRE
    40 8 BUENOS huge fire at a here had by early damage estimate at J pesos (about firemen we:* kno *L.;£j died, another wa< A about 20 ii 1 fire, which is X P£_ \go tinue tor three *J* -1
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    SIT: VACANT
    11 8 WANTED I. dg* ol <"■■ /'J li. T. Spore. I
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