Malaya Tribune, 3 July 1949

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  • 58 1 Sunday Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Td: 'Tribune" Spore M4L4 K4!° NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Phone 5811/3 Nine Lines, PuOM'shed simuZtaneous/y at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. SIXTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JULY 3, 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS THE SUNAY TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice Glover c/o Newspaper Features, Ltd.,
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  • 529 1 Johore Wgter Tunnel Bricked Up: It May Never Be Used JOHNSON TO PROBE Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter pIVE hundred yards of tunnel have cost the Singapore Municipality 5800,000 and now the tunnel has been closed. Both ends have been bricked up and
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  • 144 1 MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD, the Commissioner General, >pene<l the new Singapore branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Rank yesterday and then gave this explanation why tenstorey Mac Donald House had been named after him: "This is the most air-conditioned building ard I a:n the most airemditioned man
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  • 37 1 NEW YORK. Saturday The United state. Secretary of Mr. Dana Axhesoa, has warned that Southern Korea wtll fali to the Communists in two or three months, if Congress rejects the administration's >150,000.000 recovery piogrammt..
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  • 110 1 Reuter. BOMBAY, Saturday. Indian shipping companies are face'! with aorisis due to the attitude foreign vested interests", accord- i ing to Mr. S. J. Panaya. an j Indian shipping executive. Mr. Pandya told newsmen that American, Australian. 1 British and continental lines had raised
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  • 52 1 ALLAN LEWIS, Tribune racing correspondent, picked eight winners comprising of three ftnts, four seconds which won and one third which also won. They are: FIRSTS: Kandy Kid, Lena Dear and Pilgrim's way. SECONDS WHICH WON: Ah Koloney, ElAlamein, Longchamps II and Frog. THIRD WHICH WON:
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  • 190 1 A.P. SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday. Charles Coo sens. ex-Major in the Australian Army, who was taken prisoner at Singapore in 1942, has arrived here to testify for the defence in the "Tokyo Rose" trial openine here on Tuesday. The slim Japanese-American woman Iva Toguri Daquino.
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  • 69 1 A number of tin and rubber share prices have now fallen to values less than the net liquid assets of the companies conI cerned. This means that a share buyer gets the actual undertakings for nothing -though many of them are still profitable. BRIGHT SPOT: This valuation
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  • 85 1 THE Director of Civil Aviation. Air Vice-Marshal S. E. Storrar. said in Singapore last night that he intended to open an inquiry into the conduct of the pilot of a Singapore Flying Clu!> light aircraft who flew low ovn the city limits on Friday evening. The Sunday
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  • 131 1 1 PURFBW has hern imposed iii four districts, 18 towns and along 18 roads in the states of Negri Sembilan and Pahang. The curfew, which will operate from 7.30 p.m. to 5.30 a.m.. becomes effective today. In Negri Sembilan the curfew will be effective in
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  • 40 1 Reuter. LONDON, Sat A London nrden has a glasshouse built I entirely of gin bottles. The bottles, being hexagonal, 'it together like a honeycomb The necks are corked to pre- vent insects making nests in- 1 side. —Reuter.
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  • 176 1 MA LA YA MAY GET MORE FROM JAPAN MALAYA will seek for mere capital goods and manufactures from Japan, according to the concensus of trade opinion, when a new trade agreement is negotiated between the Sterling area and Japan for 1949/1950. The last agreement expired on June 30, and the
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  • 238 1 A.P. SHANGHAI, Saturday.—The small, pretty wife of American editor Randall Gould yesterday sailed through her kitchen door, leaving behind a "trail of bruised Chinese workers, who were beseiging her flat in a protest against the shutdown of iVr husband's Shanghai Evening Post. Chinese press accounts
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  • 41 1 Reuter. SHANGHAI. Sat. Two bombs were dropped on the northern outskirts if the city by a single Nationalist plane this morning. The plane scattered leaflets said to name targets for future attacks, including telegraph and wireless installations. Reuter.
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  • 93 1 —But British Deny Report A.P. SHANGHAI, Saturday. Responsible British sources today denied the report that the British sloop Amethyst has been granted permission by the Communists to leave her Yangtze anchorage and leave Chinese waters. The British Consulate spokesman said he could provide no confirmation of the reported
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  • 65 1 Reuter. HONGKONG. Sat. Lt. Gen. F. W. Festing arrived here today from Britain in a Royal Air Force plane to assume his new appointment as General Officer Command-ing-im-Chief at Hongkong. General Festing travelled by way of Singapore, where he had consultations with Gen. Sir Neil Ritchie.
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  • 52 1 HONGKONG, Saturday.— Seven planes have flown 20 tons of silver bullion from Hongkong to the Nationalist Government finance department which has been evacuated to Chunking Tho bullion arrived from Britain in May for shipment to Shanghai, but was held up here when the Communist threat to the
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  • 206 2 Mr. T. J. B. Wearne, well-known Singapore businessman, walked into the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank the other day and said to the manager- "I haven't been in your bank for thirty years, but l'f* seen your new building in Orchard Road and I like it. When
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  • 169 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Mr. C Tharmalingam, Senior Trade Cnion Officer, the first from the Trade Union Adviser's Department, Federation of Malaya, to go to the United Kingdom for special training In trade union principles, has returned to Malaya aftei an intensive six-month course. Mr. Tharmalingam returned
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  • 56 2 Eleven Sikhs have been named by the Governor of Singapore to form an Advisory Board on* matters connected with the Sikh Religion and Custom?. They are Messrs. Sardar Singh. Gulzar Singh. Choor Sir i Amar Singh. Jhanda Singh. Sadhoo Singh, Sardai Tara Singh. Hardit Singh. Kaitar
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  • 46 2 Community leaders of the various kampongs in Jurong have volunteered to assist the people to register BJ voters before registiation closes July 15. This follows the campaign by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce urging all Chinese to exercise theii civic rights as voters.
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  • 25 2 Smallpox exists in Osaka and this Japanese port has been declared an infected place under the Singapore OJarantine and Prevention cd Disease Ordinance.
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  • 166 2 THE American Association of Malaya has made all preparations to celebrate the 173 rd anniversary of Independence Day today at 3 p.m. at the Thomson Road Polo Ground, for members and their guests. Baseball games and other organized sports will take place. There will
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  • 36 2 Mr Justice Brown, now on h iv. in the United Kingdom, la expected back in Singapore on Friday. Mr. Justice Taylor, now in Singapore, will go on transft i to the Fedeiation shortly.
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  • 59 2 Dr Gwee Ah Long with his diploma in medicine in which he took a distinction and his three medals the Lim Boon Keng Medal for medicine, the Olbas Medal for general proficiency and the Brunei Hawefl Medal for < linical work. Dr. ft wee hones to
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  • 207 2 DRITISH merchant ships leaving Singapore for D China and Hongkong are advised to spread the Union Jack on their decks in order to secure maximum identification in case of air attacks. This suggestion is made by the Ministry of Transport through Mr. W. H.
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  • 49 2 Mr. find Mrs. It. J. C. Clark with their baby son. Johi. Brian, after, his christening at St. Andrews Cathedral. Mr. Clark was in Singapore on short leave. He flew here from Chauk in Upper Burma where he i% with the Burma Oil Company.
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  • 48 2 Mr. T.V. Ramakrishna iao, M. A.. Assistant Agent of the Government of India in Malaya, has taken over officially from the retiring Agent. Mr Nataraja Pillai. Mr Rao will continue to act as the Agent till the appointment of a regular Indian Foreign Service Officer.
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  • 76 2 MALACCA, Sat. Matzin bin Lambak. a Malay school ti aehei with 22 years' seivice. was convicted yesterday on a summons in the Circuit Magisti ate's Courts befoie Mr. S. Bon Bernard with having voluntarily caused hurt to i well-known loeai-Straits-boin Chinese. Ta\ Kirn Yong. and with
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  • 255 3 (From Our Staff Correspondent) JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. three-day trial of Captain Charles Ernes! Marion, Royal Engineers, and Lily Soong Lai Chun, a dance hostess, ended dramaticallv in the Sessions Court today when Mr. W. B. Sutherland, President of the Court, acquitted both without calling for their
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  • 70 3 MT. Sardar Jogendra Smgh, the Indian Trade Commission-er-designate lor Singapore and the Federation cf Malaya, arrived yesterday by B.O.A.C. Constellation from Ca-cutta. Sardar Jogendra Singh hay had expert training in bus! nesr. organisation and executive control in America ami »)een managing director of several firms in
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  • 84 3 JOIiOP.E BAHItU. Sat.—A 53-\c2!-c!d Ce.iue.se opium smoker, Chai Hce. was asked tc shew his hands and mouth in the Sessions Court today. The Preatdenf of the Couit then ordered him 10 be sent to the Hospital foi medical examination. Chai Hee pleaded guilty to charge
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  • 160 3 F. N. To Build $3 Million Plant (Sunday Tribune Reporter) ERASER and Neave Ltd. will shortly build a modem aerated water factory in Singapore costing from three to four million dollars. They have already bought a 15-acre plot of land foi more than $750,000. at the junction of River Valley
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  • 31 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Tfterc weie arrests in Federations in the last 24 hours, 1 in Keduh-Perlis. 4 in Panang, 4 in Perak, 10 in SetangOi, and 8 in Johore.
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  • 68 3 A month-o'd deadlock over dismissal terms ended yesterday when about 80 workers of the Joo Seng rubber milling factory in Bukit Timnh finally agreed to re paid off with a dismissal compensation mounting to roughly one-month wages, witheu. tood-allowancr. Millers will get a compensation of $74 each,
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  • 57 3 The Man.if Police are in »*u I of men willing 10 be enlisted as Volunteer $t* ctel Cortsfaß!**, lo perform paTroli m Poii< v launch- I ea with lit; Hir* I*'1*' Police. Those who ar»- interested should t,'et in touch with A.S.F. K. H. Son-;, Stall Officer
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  • 100 3 The Department of Civil Aviation nas purchased four American made 32 h.p. 'Jeep' lire trucks tor the Federation and they will soon be shipped. These trucks have tour wheel drive and a very high speed. They have each a trailer containing a 200 gallon tank
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  • 94 3 Air mail is expected here today fiom Aden, South America, Canada, Europe. Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Africa Pakistan, U.S.A., Australia. New Zealand. Burma, Thailand, and the Federation of Malawi Latest time of posting at the G.P.O. to Canada. Aden. South America', Euiopt. Egypt. Iran. Iraq. Africa, Pakistan, U.S.A..
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  • 65 3 The fit si meeting of the Singapore Hakka Church will fie held at the Chmc tc V.M.C.A. Hall (top floo;) today, at 1 p.m. The service will last for an bout The Church now has a membership of about 150 people, and all Hakka Christians and
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  • 81 3 Reuter. LONDON, Sat. Britain's heat wave Is shrivelling up fruit crops and threatening a serious water shortage in many districts. Reports from southeast E re today told of an even worse position. Ponds and streams are dry- j ing up and cattle are beh.g turned
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  • 176 3 COMPLAINTS against delay in the settlement of war damage claims are daily mounting. Almost every company chaiiman reporting to his shareholders this week complained. Here are three extracts: 1. Allenby Rubber (Sir Sydney palmer): Your company like so many others is now in a difficult position. When we
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  • 114 3 THIRTY people were banished from the Federation of Malava in June. This brings the total number of banishments for 1949 to 216. i U Ann "IOO Of these, 138 aliens and 30 British subjectes were convicted of crimes by the courts, and 46 were aliens
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  • 257 3 ANEW charitable associa- j tion has been formed in Singapore, with Lady Gim :>n as its President The Association is called 'St. Andrew's Linen Guild", and its Object is to provide children's clothing for the inpatients and destitute outpatients of the St. Andrewi Hospitals. It
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  • 90 3 Applications for admission to the Singapore Volunteei Corps have dropped considerably since the ini'ial rush on June 21 wnen 66 men applied. One hundred and seventyfive applicants, 126 in person and 4*> by post, have so far registered. the applicants is one Arab, 4 Ceytoncse, 5 Europeans
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  • 21 3 A mother of 55, her son, and daughter were married in turn at and afterwards attended a joint reception.
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  • 36 3 Sports Clu b Party A group of happy faces at the Borneo Oompaaj Ltd. Spt Club Dance, in th Victoria Memorial Hal!. The dance was organised to raise funds for a sports ground for the elan.
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  • 57 3 MALACCA. Sat —The Portuguese settlement in Malacca was gaily betiag;.ed tor the annual ceremony 01 b' ssing the boats. This was performed by Father Colaco. vicar ol St. Peter's Chu'-ch, Malacca. The settlement is at the end of t'jong Pasir Road tn«i Jma a male tishing population
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  • 100 3 A debate between The Singapore Clerical Administrative Workers' Union and the Army Civil Service Union will be held at the premises of the former Union at 172 A. Rangoon Road. Singapore, toMonday. July 4, at G. 30 p.m. The subject of the debate will be "That the
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  • 53 3 Tne V. M. C. A. will open a German class on July 0. The class will be under Di Kohl. The Y. M. C. A. already has French and Malay classes. A new Malay conversation class will begin July 6. lnche Jaafai wdl oe in chaifce
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  • 343 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. A Flag Day and a Carnival Fair will be held by the Selangor State Welfare Committee in connection with Welfare Week in the, State. This was decided at a meeting of the Welfare Week Committee held in Kuala Lumpur yesterday to discuss arrangements
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  • 76 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat. Seven fatal accidents were reported in Johore during Hay, an increase of five pmn the previous month This was disclosed in a lcpoit Which was tabled before the Traffic OiT:cc:. johore, today. The repott also showed an incicase in the number of persons
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  • 56 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat.— Nineteen-year old Mohammed Lazim bin Tahir. a Special j Constable attached to the Special Constable Training School. appeared before TTngku Ismail in the Magistrates' Court touay on three charges today. He was accused of being absent from training, escaping from Police custody after his
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  • 55 3 The public is re.r.wi.-.v. by the Post Office that new postage rates on letter.* and postcards to places in Singapore, the Federation ot Malaya, Sarawak, North Borneo, and Brunei are: Letters, ten cents for the first ounce and 5 five cents for each additional ounce. Postcards, six cents.
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  • 30 3 A 20-day dark-room cure has been prescribed for 14--year-old French schoolgirl Lucienne Cretoux, of Balon-en-Charente, who has been hiccoughing for three weeks at the rate of 52 a minute.
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  • 430 4 Report On Merchant Shipping Ordinance IF the findings of a technical sub-committee are accepted by Government, there will be, with one exception, no revision of the present matining scales under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance. The exception is the recommendation to amend the
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  • 144 4 ANEW points system for Singapore Improvement Trust houses has been approved by the Board of Trustees recently. The new system will give preference to British subjects, tuberculosis sufferers, people who have lost homes as a result of the war and those who have served
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  • 40 4 A man whose Samoyed had worried seven ducks told Hinckley magistrates the dog had never r,een a duck before. He had shut it up witn his poultry ever since and it was eating with the hens.
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  • 82 4 At a recent meeting, the Musicians' t'nion of Btngsvproc elected the following Office bearers: President: Mr. Charles Lazaroo. Vice-President: Mr. Nick Teboeff, Hon. SeCretary: Mr. Jacob Chan, Asst. Hon. Secretary: Mr. S. If. Gomes, Hon. Treasurer: Mr. T-tn I'ooi Hcong. Ooznmittcc Members: Mr Cor Byf, Mr. Dan
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  • 239 4 Thanks To The U.N. Conference (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) When the United Nations Conference sits at the Victoria Memorial Hall, early in September the complete renovation and overhaul of the building vvtfl have cost Singapore $54,000. The building will bv then The building will
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  • 166 4 IT l? not all books and mugging for loSfl Hawa binte Abdullah, 24. the first Malay girl to graduate in arts at Raffles College. She is a good cook and knows all about housekeeping. Hawa la the daughter of the late Mr. Abdullah and
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  • 261 4 (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) DENANG'S traffic is worrying Chief Inspector R. II York, the officer in charge of the traffic branch. Appeals through press and radio have failed to curb the activities of the city's jaywalkers and road-hogs. Inspector York asked the Penangites to
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  • 53 4 The Post Ceititicatc class of the Raffles Institution will hold a social and dance in aM Ol the University of Maim h]nd"wmcnt Fund in the school hall on July 9. Tt< t it $2 each may be obtained from the School office The organiser is Mr.
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  • 24 4 MALACCA. Sat. A curfew has heen imposed in the mukim of Chohong in the Jasin distnct, between 9.30 p.m. and K.4G a.m.
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  • 316 4 'pHE Survey Department have in hand a 10-year plan for a full survey of Malaya. Part of this plan is the production of some new series of maps. About 3.000 maps of each State of the Federation of Malaya and the Settlement ate
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  • 95 4 The Singapore Stamp Club will hold a Junior Philatelic Competition and Exhibition at the St. Joseph Institution on the 13th August at 2.30 p.m. The object of this is to encouiage stamp collecting. Competitions include general collection (limited to one album only, subject collection and a stamp quiz.
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  • 117 4 Donation? amounting to about $6,000. headed by $1,353.25 from an anonymous donor, were sent to the Y.M.CA. of Singapore, last year, the Y.M.CA second post-war annual icpoit reveals. In the same year there were 883 members of all creeds and nationalities. The Association has made
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  • 555 4  -  By Ivor Kraal MALAYA S first pilot to receive flying training by a local commercial airline is Radio Officer Chan Soon Kin of Malayan Airways. R/O Chan, 22. has just icquired his "A" license after training in Royal Singapore Flying Club aircraft Joining Ma- layan Airways exactly two
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  • 417 5 TELL THE TRIBUTE The Tribune invites you to give your opinion of Radio Malaya—and how you think its broadcasts can be improved. Letters should not be longer than 200 words. A prize of $20 will be paid for the best letter published, with awards of
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  • 35 5 Traffic results on the weekly direct flight to Bangkok by Malayan Airways "have not been encouraging," it was stated. The service was operated to connect with the round-the-world service by Pan-American World Airways.
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  • 594 5 COST OF LIVING IS TOO HIGH pEOPLE do not marry at 18 nowadays as they used to before the war the average age of people who marry today is very much higher, statistics at the Registry of Marriages reveal. Most people agree that the
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  • 106 5 Employers in Johore are warned by the Labour Department that they must submit the quarterly returns of their employees before the 14th of the month following the end of each quarter. A spokesman of the Labour Department said that failure to do so would render the employers
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  • 62 5 THE Filipino Community in Singapore will celebrate the Third Anniversary of the Phillippine Independence on July 4. Celebrations will start with a thanksgiving mass at the Cathedral of Good Shepherd. A cinema show will be given for the children at the C.V.M.A Catholic Centre. There will be
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  • 374 5 (Sunday Tribune Staff Reporter) THIRTY-TWO Singapore water detectives under 1 the direction of Mr. H. A. Milne, the Superintendent, saved 180,000,000 gallons of water in the Colony last year. They are the staff of the Waste Detection Section of the Water
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  • 38 5 Six political books printed tn India were banned by the Singapore Police. Their titles were: Dravida Nadu Volume 7; Pore Murasu, Volume 1: Porewal. Volume 2; Netaji, Volume 1: Nagaia Volume 16 ana Puratchi. volume 1.
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  • 248 5 i Sunday Tribune Reporter) THERE is a growing feeling among many Singapoie private motorists that it is high time petrol rationing came to an end. Almost every motorist has several gallons of petrol coupons to spare before the next quarter. It is, however, officially learnt
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  • 194 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday—The Traffic Police dealt the illegal taxi racketeers "a smashing blow" recently when they trapped six of them with the aid of the Army. A.S.P. Stack said that fie Officer, told the Tribune that the racketeers caught were charged in the Magistrates' Court.
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  • 406 5 SCHEME to carry out a series of' experiments on the canning of Malayan fruit and vegetable products will be launched shortly at the Government Canning Research Station, 5th mile, Scudai Road, j Johore Bahru. The results and samples will be made available
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  • 25 5 The Chinese Swimming Club will hold a dance for members and their relatives on Saturday next, July 9, from 9 p.m. to la,ra,
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  • 84 5 EIGHTEEN thousand eight hundred and ten of Singapore's nearly one-million population are trisha and tricycle riders, according to the Labour Department's employment report for the quarter ending March 31, 1949 Of this total 17.453 of them are Chinese; 682 North Indians; 655
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  • 57 5 A Malayan Airways Dakota was forced down on an old disused Japanese air stiip 10 miles north of Kuching earlier this week because of bad weather. The plane, carrying nine passengers en route to Singapore from Jesselton, North Borneo, suffered no damage and no one was hurt.
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  • 2435 6  -  By VERA ARDMORE MR. LOIIS DREYFUS, Jnr., wJio is going to At'giianistan as United States Ambassador, passed through Singapore last week on his wav t<> Kabul, the capital. Unlike most diplomats who nowadays travel almost everywhere by air. Mr. Dreyfus plans to motor to Kabul .from Karachi, over
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    1750 7  -  From JIMMY GLOVER LONDON. Sat. THE first duty of a Government la to ov ern. There are many public speakers and contributors to the British Press today who consider that the Government is fai ing in its first duty. Weak action in regard to Malaya j g not
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  • 1240 7 WITH a mundane title but with material within its pages which might almost belong to the wildest flights of fancy in tales of the Arabian Nights, "Egyptian Service", by Sir Thomas Russell Pasha, K.8.E., C.M.G., better known as Russell Pasha, famous British officer of the Egyptian
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  • 419 8 image of America as an economic Colossus bestriding the world, flexing giant muscles and radiating inexhaustible strength is slowly fading. No longer is America regarded as the Moses who will lead the world to the Promised Land flowing with milk and dollars. One begins to wonder whether
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  • 1225 8  -  THE CASE FOR A ROYAL COMMISSION Victor William Williams Saunders Purceli, noted Chinese scholar, who studied in Canton, was for twenty-six years in the Malayan Civil Service, holding posts which ranged from Magistrate to Protector of Chinese, and Director-General of Information, Malaya. After the Occupation, as
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  • 746 8  -  by H. DAY IN an age when human rights are violated in almost every country ir- the world it is refreshing to find that a man named Alfred Cole has precipitated a strike by refusing to shave his beard. He maintains and who will refute
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  • 1352 9 PETER TOWNSEND Radio repoiter and foreign correspondent, tells why Shanghai, expected to fight to the last against the Communists, changed hands so easily. VO single victory in China's civil war has strengthened the Chinese Communists' hands so much, or served to break the Nationalists' prestige so completely, as
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  • 986 10  -  By Walter Wigmore N.F.L. WE have been told often enough that ignorance of the law excuses no lawbreaker: but ftaithci la it an admissible defence to plafcd that one has broken 4 he kflMf for a joke. "The law has r.o sons-' of
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  • 819 10  -  By HARVEY DAY H.G. I N a lecture before the war Professor A. E. Heath, who at the time held the Cna-r of Philosophy at Swansea University, revealed that nn cleven-vear old boy had committed a number of burglaries in
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous

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    44 11 THIS lovely is posed by Pat Alphjn, I'nivervil International's up-and-< omini' actress, who will soon be seen on the Singapore screen in "Ma and Pa Kettle," starring Marjorie Mi)in and Percy Kilbride, and tiie William Hendiv starrer. "I he Life of Riley."
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  • 1087 11  -  It's not all roses for an Oscar winner—not even for that star named Wyman Hollywood Dialy from HENRY GRIS HOLLYWOOD. [ESS than a day after the world had been flashed the news that sho had been awarded Hollywood's highest honours the Oscar for the be«.t
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  • 244 11 Anna May Wong Back On Screen In 'Impact' GOOD news to m:v.i.\ fans ot Anna May Wong is the fart that sl-.t r< ti'riiint, to pictures after many years of re-tir.-"i»'rit. Ami Mlfh Wong. tall, soignee, and beautiful is ver;, calm about the event. She ma btf return in Harry
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  • 103 11 JANE RUSSELL claims she I* I "inclined to follow the line I of least resistence." Since hor rise to fame in "The j Outlaw." Jane has been Holly- j wood's busiest actress as well as being constantly in demand j for personal appearances, radio broadcasts and
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  • 82 11 WHEN Robett Mitchum, Janc Grcrr. and on RKO Radio production unit return to I Tehuacan, Mexico, this month j for final location filming on I The Big Steal.'' a couple of hundred gallons of brown paint will travel with them. The paint will be used to
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  • 156 11 WHEN George Raft, star of Samuel Blschoff's "Outpost in Morocco," a romantic drama of the French Foreign Legion around the year 1919, slopped in Paris after spending six weeks in the Moroccan Interior malting exteriors for th* lilm, he was enthusiastically feted by the French
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  • 200 11 OTY LISTS are making monkeys out of men, Iwlieves AtWphe k Menjou, but they're not going to make a monkey out of him. Style dictator on the screen for yeais, named on more "best dressed" lists than any other Hollywood actor, and author of
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  • 83 11 SHIRLEY TEMPLE caller! for a sol tcaing of a ilight of 1 stairs for a scene in "Baltimore I Escape." in which she If rs with Robert Young and her 1 husband. John Agar. The script required hor to 1 run full speed down the steps— jin a
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  • 334 12  -  WOMAN'S PAGE by Barbara Gillies PHOTOGRAPHS of the latest hat models from all over the word showed me that, thanks to the short hair styles which dominate at present, hats can, and do. show Off the contour of the head, and a
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  • 312 12 STAWS are here again, m London, and here in abundance, with all the prewar favourites and some new ones to crown and cheer our way. There are leghorns and bakus, chipped and petal straws, burnt straws. There are al3o the newer straw fabrics. There is
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  • 253 12 CONTRARY to what might have been expected from the number of flower-trimmed hats shown in the early Paris collections, flowers are at a discount as far as the taste of the smart set is concorned. Indeed simple hats are leaders this season. Fust and foremost
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  • 288 12 IN New York, and all over the LTnited States. hats this season arc larger and crazier than ever. Cartwheels, chimney pots and soaring cones vie with one another in obscuring the view. American women. who have earned the title c? the best-dressed women in the
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  • 1509 13 TEOH SENG KHOON concludes The Quest for the Cup THE All England championships, which followed the Thomas Cup, were important to us not so much as a team lut as individuals. The titles at stake are regarded as world titles. There was a
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  • 1692 13 In this article ALLAN LEWIS, Tribune Racing Correspondent, gives you his views CHOt'LD bookmakers be legalised in Singapore or should more stringent laws be brought into force to suppress their activities? The Committee appointed to investigate bookmaking in the Colony has already collected a vast
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  • 717 14  -  S.A.S.A. Times Rather Stiff By S. C. LIM COR the first time in the history of Singapore swimming the Colony Is to send a team to compete in the Empire Games to be held in New Zealand next year. There is a very big
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  • 99 14 MALACCA, Sat. Chan Yin Tat won the Junior singles tennis title, yesterday, beating Chua Seng Jong 6-3. G-2 in the Malacca Lawn Tennis Association championships. In the Open Doubles finals Abdullah and Dom had to light hard for their victory over Tay Hong Seng
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  • 148 14 The following -.'ai :<:s In »he S.C.A Tournament will 1a- play--1 ed off today. On ihe Padang. the S.C.C. meet the Chinese in their return name. There should not be very h«h scoring and a very close game is anticipated. At Hong Lim Green, the OnfcS i
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  • 300 14  -  CRICKET REVIEW By A Special Correspondent NEGRI SEMBILAN created a mild sensation last w e e k-end in their annual State fixture with Singa|>ore, when the\ came very near to victory after being runs behind on the first innings. pricket fans, no doub Local cricket fans,
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  • 138 14 The following are Hie had inn MHM *> Howlef-. in the H.t'.A. Tournament to date:— LEADING BATTING AVKBAQKB 'JfMaliti.aln.n X Inning* MUfINGS NO. ll.>. A'fßta A'acc F. Presrott (B.A.F. (hangii 1« 1«« -W« SJ.W < heonjf Thiam Siew (S.C.K.O I*o* JMI S. K. Sundnim iV.S.V.) H
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  • 373 14 THE Eighth Malayan badminton championships, postponed from the Easter holidays due to the absence of the country's best players who were in the United Kingdom battling for world honours, are scheduled to be held during the August bank holidays at Kuala Lumpur. The
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  • 110 14 S. C. C. Versus Khalsa Association today at 11 a.m. on St Georges Road: N Bradbury (Capt.i. V.I. Margrave, N. McKee. G.P Darke. J.G. Cnsswell, J. C. G Pierce. K. L G. Stewart, Capt. A. E. Sowrav. I. A. Mclnroy, L. Holliday. C. H Harris.* The
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  • 305 14 On the S.R.C. Padang: last v. .-end a Singapore Ciicket Association XI heat the CcmImied Colleges by 4 r j runs in a clo:;ely contested game. The Colleges' bowlers did we'l for their side biu the batsmen showed a definite lack of practice after a layoff
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  • 75 14 The following are the position* in the S.C.A. Tournament U> date: Ist. Inn*. r w l w i- r s.UA. 9 3 I 3 1 M s.C.f. 9 I I I I <J1- t 4 1 g lt\F rhangi I 1 j I J g s.r.K.C. 9 t
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    • 242 14 UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG NOTICE. Completed Applications for Admission in September. 1949. into the Faculties of Medicine, and Engineering of the University of Hong Kong, must be m the hands of the Registrar by July 25, 1949, at the latest B. MELLOR. Registrar. Prof. ILMUDDIN A ALA ID. (Astro-Palmist and
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  • 2275 15  -  By ALLAN LEWIS jyjAIN feature of the racing at Bukit Timah vaster day, opening day of the Singapore Turf Club's July Meeting, was Doug McPherson's four winners. .Doug started off by riding the first winner then followed by riding the winners of races three,
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    • 90 15 SKY-HIGH THRILLS when a Super-Sleuth tackles a bunch ,of Crim ma Is wi th the Scientific Methods of Tomorrow! Baf fling— with his Disguises! Daring—with Nerves of Steel! tohowiiii» <( omplclc af oik' Screening! TOIIA V aiid DAILY i s ii<m'«^ ADVENTURE!... ACROSS 1,030 MILES OF 4 TERRiFIC TiMES TODAY
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  • 27 16 IMcture shows Longchamps II beating Natural by a short head in a photo-finish in the main race at Buklt Timah races, yesterday.
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  • 452 16 Keyt Does Hat-Trick H ESMOND KEYT, young left-arm bowler from St. Andrew's School, performed the hat-trick, yesterday, for the Singapore Combined Schools against the Hongkong University at the Raffles' Institution ground. Keyt. who took four wickets for four runs in 10 balls clean bowled all
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  • 70 16 WIMBLEDON, Sat. Ricnrdo Gonzales ami Frankie Parker won an exciting men's double semi-final against Brtc Sturgees IS. Africa) and Budge Patty (U.S.A. 6 6 1. 3 G, 5 7. 7 5. and will meet their compatriots Gardnar Mulloy and Ted Schroeder. The scratch pair rallied well after losing
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  • 33 16 PENANG. Sat. Penandefeated Kcdah three-nil in the opening match of the M.C.F.A. soccer competition hero today. The half time score was one —nil. Scorers were Cheng Erg, (2) and Ah Loke.
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  • 89 16 THE S.R.C. "A" team beat the S.C.C. "A' team by hve wickets on the Padang. i .st< rdav. Batting first, S.C.C. totalled 64 runs of which G. Hyslop scored 26 and R.M. Nelson 18. C Nccdham, Boudwyn and Rczario captured two wickets each. The
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  • 336 16  -  By HARRY FANG lOHORE'S need for a large and most modern sports stadium with facilities for soccer, hockey, rugger, badminton, table-tennis, athletics, cricket and other games was stressed by the Hon'ble Dato Onn bin Ja'afar. Mentri Besar of Johore, in an interview. Dato Onn said
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