Malaya Tribune, 15 July 1949

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    57 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE 8po»« LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON 1 PAPER ffi I MALAYA j Phone' 5811/3 Nine Lines Published simultaneously at uxngapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice Glover Co Newspaper Features, Ltd., 107,
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    Seize H. K. Ship
    104 1 Stop Press Reuter. Hongkong, Today.—The Ct»'- I nese-owned motor vessel Kwelh\va, tons was pirated on Wednraday night on its way to Hongkong, according to a cablc received by its owrers late last night. Six pirites who board »1 the vessel in Canton as passengers disarmed the
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    KARENS' CHIEFTAIN REPORTED SLAIN
    274 1 Reuter-A.P. RANGOON. Thursday.—Burmese press reports yesterday said Saw Bau U Gyi. 35-year-old President of the revolting Karens, had been killed In a clash between Karens and Communists. Sixteen armed escorts of the President were also killed in the clash, near Nyauglebin. Karen stronghold 98 miles north
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    India To End KLM Ban Too
    97 1 A.P. NEW DELHI. Thurs.—lndia will lift the present ban on X.L.M. llights over its territory as soon as "certain preliminaries" are completed in Indonesia, an official source reported tonight. The source declined to specify what xhc "preliminaries were and said he did not know
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    REFUSED LICENCE
    42 1 Reuter. LONDON. Thurs. -Mr. Fredek Sidney Cotton. 54-year-old Hi dish pioneer airman, who was fined -'-00 and ordered to pa> £300-COStfl hctc in May on summonses accusing him of dying anas to Hyderabad, was today refused a pilot's licence.- Reuter
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    OIL IS KEY TO DOLLAR TALKS
    592 1 Britons to get less sugar, But more butter, meat, sweets, tobacco... and bacon LONDON, Thursday COI LOWING the announcement by Chancellor ol the Exchequer Sir r Stafford Cripps that Britain must cut her dollar imports in 1949-50 by £100 000,000, Commonwealth Finance Ministers, hi
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    Food Dept. Explains The Cuts
    176 1 Reuter.-A.P. LONDON. Thurs.—sir Stafford Cripps' brief reference* today t > a <"Ut in Britain's sugar ration ajid increases In the butter, meat and nac*>n rations were elaborated In n Food Vliidstry statement issued simultaneously with his House of Commons speech. The »ugar ration will be
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    STAMPEDE
    80 1 A.P. MOMBASA, Thurs. Oamci wardens and other officials are checking a stampede of 5,000 elephant* from the interior to; j the coast in Search of water, I i latest reports brought in by naStives from outlying districts in-' I dicated today. J It is believed about 70 ele-1 I
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    SUMATRA FIGHTING FLARES
    110 1 U.P. BATAVIA, Thurs. The Dutch army reported deterioration of security conditions in Sumatra today as a result of increased guerilla activßj by the Indonesians. It said Republican forces had "suffered heavy losses' around Bencoolen oa tne southwest coast of Sumatia. and large quantities of arms were seized.
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    Return To Penang
    70 1 A.P. LONDON Thurs. Wllliaui T. hapnian. retired Malayan ci\i' net \ant, directed In his will made pontic today IfcaJ his ashes be sunk la I'eiiang Harbour. hapman was a former Secretary ot Chinese Affairs, Malaya: His will provided fc*>» to pay the captain of a ship to
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    KATAYAMA IN PARIS
    28 1 U.P. PARIS, Thurs. Tetsu Kata yama. Deputy Prime Minister <>. Japan and President of the Japanese Socialist Party, arrived here last night from Hanover. Germany. —U.P.
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    UNION LEADERS IN SECRET TALKS TO END DOCK STRIKE
    261 1 More Troops Unload Strike-bound Ships A.P. LONDON, Thursday. IjNION leaders made a new effort tonight to eoa\ London's 14,289 idle dockers back to work on the government-seized Thames River waterfront. Chiefs of two unions covering the docks' work ers met with
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    ITALY TOO BACKS U.K. STRIKERS
    93 1 A.P. ROME. Thurs.—Thc Com-munist-controlled Italian Confederation of Labour on Thursday cabled English dock*workcrs that no Canadian ships would be unloaded in Italian ports. The cr.ble "applauded the I new fight, expressing flater- j nal sympathy." the Italian news agency Ansa reported. Reports from Genoa said
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    WOMEN START DEPUTIES BRAWLING
    93 1 A.P. TFUERAN. Thuis. Thc| Iranian paihament was thrown j into uproar last night following proposal of an amendment to permit women to vote. A deputy who proposed it was j set upon by three deputies representing Muslim religious interests. Then a free for all started with
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    Cripps, Churchill Clash
    74 1 During Urn debate when j Sir Stafford referred 1«» what h:- railed "th- run- I tinned spur id the hope of j natioi aiisidioii," Mr. Win•ioa l i—rrfiill, lender oi 1 MM Opposition. I>r.»ke in with: "You do not believe a word of i*." r Stafford retorted:
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    RED CASH SECRETS REVEALED
    181 1 SYDNEY. Thurs. Some of the Austialian Communist Party*! financial secrets were revealed today in the arbitration court in Sydney. The court was told that the Communist Party controls large sums of money in Australia in a number of banking account", some of them in the names
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    "I Will Fight On" —Chiang
    195 1 CANTON, Thurs. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek said here tonight that war is the only solution of China's C( mmunist problem and that, he would continue to fight until final victoryThe statement was issued through the official Central News agency, and called on the people to rally
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    COMMITTEE FORMED IN U. K.
    225 2 Will Study Conditions Good News For ACSU THE British Government announced yesterday the appointment of a Committee of Enquiry "to review the arrangements for dealing with conditions of service of civilian employees in the Service Departments 111 Singapore and to make recommendations". The Committee will
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    Coming Soon
    65 2 Singapore book stores arc expecting the book "Naked and the Dead", by Norman MaiHer in tne MSG shipment. There have been many inquiics about the took in the leading book stores, the mangers say. Quite a number of them are ladies who "book for another man and refuse
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    Air Chiefs To Meet In S'pore
    135 2 A two day Command Conference wiif be hold by the Ccaunandei in Chief. Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd at Headquarters Far East Force on the July 18 and in. The Air Officer Command- I ing Malaya (Air Vice Maishal F. J. W. Mellershj the
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    1000 COPIES SOLD
    35 2 One thousand copies of IfiC Sacred Heart Recorder edited by Mr. Khoo Teng Eng for the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, Tank Road, were sold at $1 each within two days.
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    LUNCHEON PARTY
    22 2 The Tungku Mahkota itle- gent of Johore) is giving a i Luncheon Party at the Istana, I Johore, on Sunday.
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    3 MEN TRIED TO BRIBE OFFICER
    318 2 CHARGE Three Indians—Kasaran Bhaskaran, Kun juraman Kamapalan and Mohamed YusofT bin Bostan Khan—appeared in the First District Court yesterday and were charged with abetting in the offence of illegal gratification. All the men claimed tria'. Royal Naval Police officer. H. A. Noble said that
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    LOURDES STATUE COMING
    98 2 A statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, which has been exhibited at various churches in Malaya, will be brought to the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes at Ophir Road, Singapore, tomorrow. The arrival of the statue will be marked by a procession in the church compound
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    Wingless Chicken
    25 2 Teter H. Kauman examines en:' of hi* wkigleas specimens Hhich hangs h*-slrtY v normal etiieken on his Iks Moines, low a Kami, U.S.A.
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    15 HUTS FETCH $1,300 RENTAL
    225 2 piFTEEN attap military huts, which a Muslim resident of Singapore bought two years ago from the Dutch military authorities when they were leaving the Colony, aie now bringing in a revenue of 51,300 per month by way of rent. in is d< q in the
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    WELFARE WEEK
    27 2 MALACCA, Thurs. .Malacca's Welfare Week Committee la making all-out efforts to make Welfare Week (August 27 to September :> as great a success a? poss b!e.
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    PRIZEGIVING AT ARMY SCHOOL
    68 2 A Piizegiving Ceiomony and «1 an Open Day for paients •nd visitors was held at the \e. Boon Garrison Child-en's School >esterday. Prizes were presented by M._. Blaeden. wife of Col. W. H. Blagden. C. B. E.. Officer Commanding the Gariison, and cutertainmenc was provided by
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    Rattan For Pickpocket
    106 2 MALAC :A, Thura. KJ.oo Gee Teck. 22. who had srvon previous fc_lVte*tM| and was still a police simo whcr he *p. i' i,>-.t a irt.>r i»c picking the pocket of b Ma lay outside a cinema, was given 12 months gaol and six strokes oi the rattan
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      222 2 BLUE NETWORK < i«.in. t MALAY PROGRAMME LSfr i,h INi.I I v m PROGRAMMES n wn Summary; 1 tlo l>«*n. 15.»5 Malay Kron-h»n«; 8.4S Warn _M_ fr.,. liv.v i_ Naw«: 1 p.m. I Umu i/IV ?t*** ''KOfiKAMMEN wi ■W IS <»„rl?wi ii 1""" 7p m ran.me Summary .12 s '*»«ture
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    SULTAN WARNS MALAYS OF DEPRESSION
    393 3 Rubber Estates May Close ALA UMI IK. Thursday—The Sultan oi Selangor in alLui Uava to th- Malays oi Selangor last night told them that the fall in oiisiness trains, and the shortage of dolhu imports and exp »rts was an indication that the cpuntrv will
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    TRAINING FOR DENTISTS
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    PAY SCHEME FOR PENGHULUS
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    LICENCE PLATES
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    RAFFLES SPORTS
    21 3 Raffles Girls' .school wr»H hclil itfl school spoits on August 10 at the Rall.es IsjStlttttion ground at 1 p.m.
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    Ledger Clerk Acquitted
    91 3 MALACCA. Thurs. Urn Cheng Hoe, a ledger clerk in Messrs. Dunlop Malayan Estates, Ltd., Malacca, smiled broadly as he stepped down from the dock of the Malacca Supreme Court yesterday a fiee man. He was charged with forgery of a cheque for ffQH drawn in the name
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    PARCEL POST SERVICE TO JAPAN RESUMED
    77 3 Eor the lirst time since 'lie liberation, parcel post serviC! to Japan from Malaya will be resumed with effect fiom July 25, IJU9. The rate* of postage on parcels addressed to Japan (Islands of Honshu, Kyushu. Shikoku and Hokkaido) uul Ryukyu Islands ar;> as
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    GOING ON LEAVE
    43 3 The Legal Adviser and Deputy Public Prosecutor. Johore, Mr. W. Martin llcCall. left for the United Kingdom yesterday by the S.S. Canton on six months leave. He will be succeeded by Mr. S. M. W. Good. Legal Adviser, Negri Sembilan.
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    SERGEANT FACES MURDER CHARGE
    280 3 IPOH. Thursday—Geoige Frederick Leonard 1 Ewin. a Euiopean police sergeant appeared in the Perak Assize Court toda;> Charged with murdering Lai Ah Moy, aged 5 at the sth. mile Jelapang Road on June 8. Ewin claimed total Prosecution alleged that on the day in niejstiOD Ewin
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    CLOSED
    20 3 Registration for admLssbm to Primary i. morning an I afternoon school of Rati! carte" School for I*JM la comparted.
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    Peaceful Switchover
    107 3 Sultan llamengku Uunnno of Jogjakarta, -lava, (fortground) Commander of the Guerillas who occupied the ettj on .June 2!», after the Did eh i< rei-4 had moved old, confers during the operation i whh ftie three members of the Military Executive Heard of th' I'nited Nations Commission for Indonesia.
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    TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
    30 3 Mr. George Reed. Special South East Commissioner for the International Transport Workers" Federation, has been taken to the Singapore General Hospital, suffering from diabetes ami heart trouble.
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    Trishaw Men Owe Owners $20,000
    117 3 Trishaw riders ate indebted to trishaw owners to the tune oi tiearij $20,000, said Mr. lim leek Toum. secretary oi the Singapore Trishaw Owners Association yesterday. •\hout 7000 tushaws ate enatd to rkdera at si i day o |24 a month Hut many of them
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    NURSING CLASS
    33 3 A new Home Nursing Cla sponsored by the St. John Ambulance Association wiil be opened at the Association s premises on Thursday. July 21. The lessons will be givon in English.
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    Awards For Four Men
    82 3 The High Cummis.-'iont r. Federation of Malaya. Sir Henry Ourney, will visit Malacca on July 2.J for a ceremony of presenting: award." by His Majesty the Kino, to lour men. Sir, Henry will present the following awards: M.IJ.E. p. Bpftng Ha.ii AJ*Jul Qfeafei in Hajl Abdul
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    Gurney Thanks Guards
    252 3 I KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Sir Henry Gurnev, Federation TTi-h Commissioner, told tli'' 3rd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards yesterday that "the Govt rnment Mid the people of this country are grateful to you and appreciate what you have cone for them here.'' Sir Henry was making a
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    15 ARRESTED
    28 3 KUALA LUMPUR Thurs. —There huve been 15 arrests in the Federation in the last 24 hour.- six in Pahang, two in Selangor and seven in Petak
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    PACIFIC UNION
    538 4 (JENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek has returned from the Philippines where he talked over with President Quirino the topic which invariably forms, the subject for conversation and speeches among respectable and not-so-respectable polili cians. Not a day passes without someone drawing the attention of the world to what he describes
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    DEBTOR TO THE PEOPLE OF MALAYA
    1560 4  -  STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER By MENCIUS Every University graduate is educated at thepeoples expense and he must repay his debt by service to the community. Mencius lias also some remarkable ideas as to how Communism could be combated. MONEY comes in for the University;
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    DIGGING UP THE PAST
    338 4 A.P. HUKNOS AIRES. OC3KNI iSTS digging In a prehistoric garbage dump have found new traces of South America's oldest civilisations Milciades Alojo Vignati, professor of anthropology at La Plata I'nivcrsity Museum, and a group of other scientists discovered the ruins which tell a new st»ry of
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    STATE LOTT ERIES
    177 4 j The People's Postbag Sir. We regret very much that the idea of State Lotteries as a means of raising money for public welfare projects is again and again being suggested. Surely, our memories are not so short that we have forgotten the fact that during the
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    FORM GUIDE
    235 4 Sir, Your innovation of the "Racing Form Guide and the detailed description of each race ny Mr. Allan Lewis, have been of considerable assistance to punters With the help of the "Fr.rm Guide") I have been able to make my selections cry much quicker, whilst Mr. Lewi- excellent
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    LOTTERIES MY FOOT
    340 4 Sir. 1 note the cry for state lottery is being revived but before the public, espec:ally the poor, cries any louder let us reflect on whether state lottcrv will in reality help the poor. As it is there are races almost every week throughout Malaya and little
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    FED UP PLANTER
    190 4 Sir. The following is an ex--imple of the Governments attitude towards assisting those in need during the present slump in the rubber in dustry. I recently had the audacity to appeal for assistance, bymeans of an advance against my War Damage Claim, to help me tide over
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    BABAS OF MALAYA
    235 4 os l ti»> l!Nl>»»Nt of l!.5 <7U! '>- t>!>' !,»»llsl!«N^ >'l! tli<> ul 1Nt6 tde <»>« sMXO^ l<r ol u »>vl.l-!.I commlillllt >ts 1..'" 'NNK >, >,«»<. ?»l<l!'««-c'!' tti/'.v >!'.» r!ne ltt'lr >' !">> 0s «»,<> >,.',!' >»!>>: !>' l <»., )c'!!»n< l,< l„o>». p, ns't.c»! i
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    INSULTED
    239 4 Sir, Mr. Leo Liiing Hye's i.rticlo on the Straits born Chinese is, I am sorry to say, full of insults to his own race. Why talk about inter-mar-riage, for this sort of thing is very common among other people as well The »?arly Chinese settlors of Malaya and Singapore
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      47 4 j i The opinions expressed V 1 by Meneius in this co- Juinn are not necessarily 1 those of this paper, if you agree or disagree with Meneius write and I tell him ho. Address your letters to: Meneius, e/o. t 1 Malaya Tribune, Singa- 1 Pore.
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    THE DEMORALISING DIAMOND
    1310 5  -  What is the unhoiv fascination that precious stones exercise on so many people otherwise honest? An amazing story from Geneva fllusirates this strange power of diamonds. by W.A. SWEENEY N.F.W.A., SWEENY. WHAT is the unholy fascination that precious stones .•xercise on so many people otherwise honest? Is
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    Australian Muslim with Strange Mission
    635 5  -  by EDWARD POLLAK A.P. \BLITK-KTKD young Australian war veteran has dedicated his life to a stiange religious mission. Muhammad Salah Al-Din Samman. whose British appearance, sports coat and down under accent go oddly with his name, is setiing up what he calls an international Clearing
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    PERSPIRATION NOT INSPIRATION MADE GREAT POEMS
    944 5  -  by HENRY ERSKINE AMONG the piles of caid.i on view in stationers' windows for St. Valentine*.'; Dav celebrations are a number thai consist of a lomantic picture he and she in a garden, say—and a blank space beneath. This is provided for those lovers
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    PAYING SQUEEZE TO BANDITS
    286 5 AN eyewitness account of conditions in the guerillainfested areas of the Canton delta was given to ReuterA.A.P. correspondent by a foreigner who nad jus; made a journey through some of South China's lesser-known watei ways. Mr. M. J. P. Keating, of St. John's Wood, London, who
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    Be Held A Gun At The Heart Of A City
    346 6 TALKING FILMS... YJREAT is truth v wrote Alexander Dumas. "Amen," echo Hollywood's movie moguls. For the outstanding post-war picture development is the success of semi-docu-mentary dramas, latest of which is "He Walked By Night," gripping story of a cold blooded
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    Steady Rise
    185 6 SOME film personalities are like meteors who blaze their brief moment in the Hollywood sky and then disappear forever while others rise more slowly but shine with the steady radiance of the North Star. Definitely in the sccond category is Richard Basehart. who plays the role of the
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    Switched Roles
    282 6 "rANON CITY" star Scott v> Brady switches to the other Fide of the law to port- ray a shrewd detective in "He Walked By Night." Brady originally won film fame as I the sympathetic convict Sherbondy in "Canon City," a story based on a recent Colo- rado State
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    Supercargo Gave Him Thrills
    102 6 LEWIS COTLOW. who participated in the recent Armand Denis-Cotlow African Expedition recorded in RKO Radio's forthcoming "Savage Splendour." developed his taste for far places at the Hge of 21, when he served as supercargo in 1919 with the United States Shipping Beard. Sixteen years later, he
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    OUT WEST
    44 6 It's MMMW like this thai niikts the far W»mi H*U>- J wood, that i* —ianious. This )ror(C«M»us <-amplt> is I.oi« I Andrewll and >nu can see i lot more of her in BKO I Kadio'* new Tim II l western. "The B—llaM."
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    "Climate Factory"
    404 7 A.P. PASADENA, California.— now world of agriculture, :n which plants that never the Mm or feel the elements produce crops of incree size and llavour, awaits just aver the horizon. Between that world and American scientists say, only a few years of experimentation—in a new "climate factory" at
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    HYDROCOL POINTS TO COAL GASIFICATION
    895 7  -  by Harold Fleming NEW YORK A RECENT article on this page described the new Brownsville, Texas, plant to make gasoline from natural gas as a prospective milestone on the nrtion's way to finding adequate liquid fuel reserves. The plant will make over 10,000 barrels a
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    BONE-AND-HORN CULTURE FOUND
    370 7 niSCOVERY by Dr. Kay- mond Dart in South Africa of what seems to be a primitive bone-and-horn culture existing "apparently thousands of years before it had any right to be there." was reported to the Ohio Academy of Scicncc meeting at Denison University by Dr. George B.
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    THE MECHANICAL BRAIN
    321 7 U.P. WASHINGTON The Government has come up with a new device for cutting expenses—a mechanical 'biain" that can whip up within minutes all available information on a million subjectsIts sponsors say the brain, now on display at the Agriculture Department may eventually help to cut down the
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      228 7 Vl* FLI T by Michcal O'MaUey and Ralph Lane T»Xt m CHA NNEL Kmc J WOMAN AND HER #3l> I WATCW TEMPER, JEAN. DON'T LET anc l things were be-11 7 that's my cigaret, not t.y 1 tall one had^ —O ginning to develop at Fog Channel's tabie. a lighter,
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    The Calame Family of Biel-Bienne
    786 8 Meet your Neighbours 4. Swit x«* rla nil MUCH has been said of Switzerland as "one and varied." Four national languages, four sections, four populations which are essentially Different in their character, customs and religion, but all united in the same love of liberty, have
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    Uneasy Frontier
    387 8 WHILE on Burma's other fronts fighting continue* with increasing intensity, a Government sponsored "peace mission" in Arakan is reported to be meeting with considerable success in persuading the Arakanese Muslim insurgents there to lay down their arms. Peace preservation committees have been established all over the area and
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    LANDS UNDER THE SEA
    772 8  -  Once Flo urishing Towns Now Gone by Michael Norman N.P. THE great expanse of ocean is constantly at war with the land. Coastlines are changing yearly, and in places almost daily. Whole tracts of land in some low-lying districts have been surrendered to the sea, villages
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      96 8 JACK AItAISTIIO \l„ by Bob St+mimhv -J poc. .y-ycs you are. j mc....n-no, nothurt m*mmw J r; •> >;t ,r**.~«, M v/«Jk v« cu v K F J *&m MS A 5 ITINERANT Ca%- J BKA3 A9OLIT MV ROf/f-O VfffMk f,h "tfcSh "7/ 7J|jH| MMNPS. kV£ PG;\T KWC J PAyj?,
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    Highland Power
    77 9 CM million hydro-electric scheme now being built in the Highlands of Scotland will, iiaea completed, have an output of about 1,700 million units per annum, or nearly half of .mi's present consumption. This picture shows the dam being built at Loch Sloy, 30 Iron idasgow. which will have
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    FIREMEN MADE SPECIALS TO QUELL RED VIOLENCE
    188 9 U.P. THE Japanese Public Safely Commission with the approval of the Allied Headquarters today authorized the emergency mobilization o! .'.000,000 volunteer firemen as "special police to boost Japan's po- tential police force to 21,250 to 2.125,000 men. The action came as a surprise
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    'Have Fun Without Feet'
    105 9 LOS ANC.ELES, Thurs. j j —One 13-year-o!d Am* 1 ricun girl wants la tell J another 13-year-o'd girl: J A oil can have fun with- out teet." i Norma Carruthers, v.ho lost both her teet in j 1 a motor accident year j >aid she is
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    'YANKS IN U. K. LONG ENOUGH'
    71 9 U.P. LONDON, Thurs. Tohn Piatt Mills, expelled Member of the Labour Party, demanded that American forces lctvc England because "they neve _stayed long enough.' Arthur Henderson, Becictary of State for Air, reply ing in the House of Commons saidf "that is a matter of
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    U.S. Toy Makers Alarmed
    181 9 U.P. NEW YORK? Thurs.—United States manufacturers of celluloid toys have taken one ook at import figures and thrown up their hands in alarm over increasing Japan- -,•> competition. According to Horatio Clark, Secretary of the Toy Manufaetorers Association, Japan at US$3OO,OOO worth of -uch toys during
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    U. S. POLICY IN JAPAN UNDER FIRE
    376 9 Russia: Too Brutal P. I: Too Lenient A.P. WASHINGTON, Thursday. ITS Occupation policial in Japan came under U joint attack in the Far Lastern Commission yesterday—from the Philippines for being too ieni lit and Hon: RnoMa for being brutal. in a new assault
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    Playboy Kuroda Says 'Sorry'
    215 9 U.P. MANILA, Thursday. THE Philippines Military Commission today 1 decreed lite imprisonment at hard labour for 'Playboy General" Shigenero Kuroda, who was charged with responsibility for more than 2.800 deaths while he was commander-in-chief of the Japanese forces in the Philippines in 1943 and 1944. It
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    LET US SEE — Korea
    115 9 LET US SEE Korea U.P. LAKE SUCCESS. Thurs.— The United Nations Koiean Commission Last night asked Russia again to permit its observers to enter Soviet-sup-ported Northern Korea to verify the withdrawal of Red army occupation forces. It was at least the third request for such permission made by the United
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    Police Hold 'Dawn Prayer' Corporal
    163 9 Reuter. TOKYO, Thursday. THE police today arrested Shigeyoshi lkeda. one-time Kempeitai corporal who was charged earlier this year by repatriates from Siberia as being the central figure in the infamous dawn prayer" executions of Japanese POW s at the orison camp m Ulan Bator, Mongolia
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    JAP MEN SIGH WITH RELIEF
    90 9 A.P. TOKYO. Thurs.—No longer will Japanese men's shoes be made in only one width, a narrow one. at that. The custom was originated by Imperial decree half a century ago when western dress became formal court attire General Mac Arthur's headquarters has decided that widened
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    WORLD RUBBER GLUT BENEFITS U. S.
    489 10 A.P. KEW YORK, Thursday.—A global glut of rub--11 ber is tossing blessings to the American consumer says the Wall Street Journal. In a long article rounding up the world rubber situation, the journal says, rubber has bean piling up since the war. At the
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    Market Firm
    34 10 L«in<ion was again a Ounci matket for tin snares ycat* rday but then was no response loculb Industrials remained quiet and steady Piice changes anno'iin by the Malayan Shaittalfcers' AsaociaUoii yesterday were:
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    863 10 Singapore, Thurs. Buyers. Sellers. j Atlas Ice 15.50 16.50 Alex. Brick Pref LAB 2.55 xd Ord-. 2.072.17 B.E. Petrol 36/ 37/» B-M. Trustee 7.50 8.50 Cona. Tin Ord. 13/- 14/ xd do. (P) 21/- 22/E. Utd. Assur. 40.75 41.75 Estate as Tru a t 7.00 8.00 Federal
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    RUBBER MARKET
    115 10 Tin rubber mar ket ..;..-n. ■> easier yesterday bin ruled vsTj •steady at 1 1 cent decline tftMu previous. Husinefs wan brink Closfns prices vftrc I>u\ era Sejlt*! No. 1 Auk. RSS 34 1/8 Si 1/4 No. 2 An*;. RB>- 512 1 2 22 I .No. :i AU4.
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    Produce Market
    94 10 Tin produce market wa* reported quiet but steady yesterdajtj Willi more inquiries from the 1.X.. Honnkons and Sian peflper PTJOCT took n further rlmib. Willi Wlute Muutok am. rawik quoted m' $410 and S4«tt respectively, and Ula< k Lampaos at $2JC> Blai k pepper took a firmer tune
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    Along The Godowns
    61 10 Bsecnusa i44i. Empire Haniblc (Sheerl Wharf»; snidan (4 M); Kola ;a <4<» 41t: Kor.a (S8 St), City of Sydn. y <:<«.?7): Cyclooa ('S3 :m>: Bantam (SI/33); Meetkerk (17 18): Chaxon (19/30). Maxwell Brander <21 ido.iienoiif< iZi 24): Mentor <2oJ6>. owendo (27 28c Sit.-<n (2f* Kpnrenu»' (13/14); Carelia
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    AIR MAILS
    60 10 Air mail arrivals ar«: sanattsd today from Ad<n. South Canada. Basope, Baypt, Inn., Africa, Pakistan TT.S.A.. China, (inolndinc Mam liuna and BAorsaata), Japan. Philippine Islands. Kurnia l J al»-ni»)anjr. and the Federation of lialaya. latest USSS «>f jw-tinp at the <;.P.O. to Australia, New Zea'and. Philippine Islands, l'urma.
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    SEA MAILS
    38 10 •No surface mails are expt-ctci '"day. Mails from the Federation will arrive as usual.. I.ate»-t tune Of perl ins surface mails to „-an»wak (except Sibu and Mini is at noon today. Malls to Pontianak Hose todriy.
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    NORTHANTS ALL OUT FOR 338
    302 11 Bar rick hits 147 not out Reuter. NORTHAMPTON, Thursday. JHE feature of today's cricket at Northampton, where the county resumed their match against the New Zealantiers, was a brilliant innings of 147 not out by Desmond Barrick, the 23-year-old Yorkshireman who joined the ground staff
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    Malacca A.A.A. Meet On Aug. 20
    146 11 MALACCA, Thurs.—Tha first championship meeting of the newly-formed Malacca Amateur Athletic Association will be held on August 30 with a card of 16 events. Two relay 3, 800 yards and one mile medley, will be opened Lo affiliated achools in Malacca. Mr. P. G.
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    INDIANS WIN
    51 11 MALACCA. Thurs.—The Malaclca Club making 63 runs were beaten by the Indian sports Club ..n Sunday by four wickets in a Doshi Shield fixture. Both <ipi tains topscored for their sides, Walker f Kfc 23 and G. Emmanuel 119 not cut. Coomarasamy took 1 live wickets for 21
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    344 11 News from the Mews ULLAM LEWIS J. F. "atlefcy" Donnelly, wr kaawa jockey was married to iiM Leoaere paioayr. of Sin apore last Monday. Charli. Kllery was best man. Th.--••;>!ion was held at ilie h0 I c Oi' .\lr. NY.I McKee. a friend of tl.c uride and
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    KUMAR OUSTED
    39 11 NEWPORT. Thurs. N. Kumar, India, was eliminated from the men's singles of the Welsh lawn tennis champion--hip-: today by M. Matous, of Czechoslovakia, who won 6-4, 6-2. Matus will now meet F. Ampon. Philippines, in the semi-final.
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    Jenkins Takes His 100th wkt.
    385 11 Reuter. LONDON, Thursday. DOLEY Jenkins, the Worcestershire a:i d England leg break bow- j ler, became the first cricketer this season to take 100 wickets as the players (Professionals); rolled towards a victory oyer the Gentlemen (amateurs) at Lords. His century wicket was Doggart of
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    TO PRESS FOR THE OLYMPICS
    67 11 Reuter. KAP.ACHI, Thurs. Pakistan is to press for more frequent O'ympic Games, Ahmed Jaffer, President of the Paki«*an Olympic Association, said here today. He reiterated that at the next meeting of the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen in May of next year he would suggest
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    SMOOTH SAILING
    39 11 s.wt-s of nocne th-* .or. crafts billowing in > the Rtroag bfl SZe .11 rones, lsl<- oi Uighl. in tl NMe round the island organised by the Isle of i > Wivjht Sailing Club on !«tl \.r. S i-
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    HUTCHINGS SET TO BREAK MILE RECORD
    79 11 The Singapore District Athletic Championship which are to be held tomorrow, at the Gairison BpOltfl Giound. Nor Soon, promise to show some interesting performances. Judging by seme display:' during the preliminary hea.u held on Tuesday and Wednesday, several existing records may be broken. Hie
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    NON-BENDERS XI
    71 11 The following have been invited to play erteael for Non-Bend- eis' Cricket Quo varmu 'he Singapore Police Cricket Club tomorrow at the Police Ground. Thomson Road, at 2.15 p.m.: Andrew Gilmour (Capt.); r>r. J. H. Strahan. H. N Balhatchel, Rev. J W. J. Steele, W. R. M. Haxworth.
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    Inglis, Todd Share 8 Goals v. S. C. C.
    578 11 Army (Spore District) 8. Europeans 1. SHAKING eight goals between themselves, Inglis and Todd of the Army Spore District, routed the Europeans in yesterday's Inter-Community League match at Jalan Besar Stadium. The Europeans suffered an B—l defeat—an Inter-Community League record. Inglis
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    S'PORE DIST. M.Y.F. T-TENNIS AND BADMINTON
    138 11 The Snigapore District Method ist Youth Fellowship will play off the following fixtures n nail table tennis and badminton tournaments at the Straits Chin ese Methodist Church. Kanipoii,, Kapor Road, tomorrow. TABLE-TEN WIS Junior Single Quarter Final: Ohf-w Chin Jin <Paya Lebai i Lee
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    'Photographic Rally' For S'pore Motorists
    156 11 TRIBT'KE MOTORING CORRESPONDENT THE Singapore Motor Car Ciub is trying a new 1 form of motor raily on Sunday. The organisers call it a "Photographic Rally" and the idea is a ncvel one for Singapore. The entrants, who will v.-. semtale outside Princes ltfs> taurant
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    JOLLILADS WIN AFTER RALLY
    73 11 After being a goal down in the first half, the Jolhlais mnde a line recovery in the second hall' to beat the Guard Dock Unit Farelf by two goals to one in a friendly soccer match played nt I Raburn Park yesterdcy. Charlton scored for the
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    Y.M.C.A. CRICKET
    47 11 The following are Invited to play for V.M.C.A. in a friend I) cricket mat< h against Mmayan Airways XI at 2 p.m tomo.n w at Balestier Road. Dyne. Itoqprr. Suratta. Tan Huck Chuun. Ho.lowav. Andy. S<-helling. Sclaren guival, On Siev, Deng. Cutwtck, D. D. Ponniah.
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    DROBNY ORDERED TO RETURN
    146 11 U.P. O S T A A D, Switzerland Thur.i.— Tfie Czech tennis ■stars Jaroslav Drobny and Vladimir Cernik were ordered to return home by the Czech Legation today because two German tennis players were competing in the Swiss Lawn Tennis Championship. The first reaction of tht
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    Ships Break Through
    73 12 CHINA BLOCKADE HONGKONG. Thursday SHIPS of at least six nation- jaM'ies have penetrated j the Chinese Nationalist b'ocx- J 3de cf the China const and aie carrying on I su iscantial I trade with cnrm *i =t lini pjrta, it wa teamed In j Hong.iong today. Shipping
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    34 12 WESLEY METHODIST YOI Til FELLOWSHIP: Mr. P. V. Sharma t.. <n "Travels in India —7.46 p.m. Y.W.C.A.: New Beginners Course in Malay—9.15 a.m., anu pC 5.15 p.m. 5, Raffles Quay.
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    Cinema
    199 12 CATHAY: -Hp Walked by t Nijrht" with Richard Basehart and Scott Brad v. ll a.m., J.4G, 4.15. 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. CAPITOL: -Virtue in the Dust with Shu Siu-Wen. 11 а.m., 1.46 4. 6.30 ana 9.30 p.m. ALHAMHRA: Blake of Sco;laiui Yard" «serial > Ralph Byrd 1.30 a.m., 2.
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    19 12 IN T ER-COM MI XI TV SOCC KK: K.A.*. tCoinoined) vs. Indians at Jaian Besar Stadium. 5.15 p.m.
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    Home Again
    53 12 A heavily laden Jap- anese soldier embraces his weeping wife at Shi- j WMI station, near Tokyo, after his return i in.... liussian held terri- lory. Captured during World War 11. he and i >th~r soldiers were repa- riated after an absence N jof more than five years.—
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    ONE KILLED IN STAMPEDE TO SEE MIRACLE
    86 12 WARSAW Than The official Polish Press Agency blames the Roman Catholic hierarchy fo: circumstances leading to the death of a woman and injuries to 19 cthci persons in a stampede to witness a "weeping virgin" portrait in Lublin. The agency said Catholic leaders
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    287 12 ['Face Communist i Trouble Squarely' CALCUTTA, Thursday. A BOMB exploded at a corner of the huge parade ground here today while Indian Prime Minister Pandit Nehru was calling on a m-.unmoth meeting to "face the Communist trouble squarely." One policeman was killed and five people
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    Prin<-**>s Klir.abeth clasps her hand-, in sympathy as Sergeant Jean Hnyhss laint*- at her feel during an inspe • tion of the guard of hon.mr i f the Woman's Koval Vnny Corps at Shrewsbury t aslle, Knjrland, recently.—A.t\ Picture.
    38 12 Prin&lt;-**&gt;s Klir.abeth clasps her hand-, in sympathy as Sergeant Jean Hnyhss laint*at her feel during an inspe tion of the guard of hon.mr i f the Woman's Koval Vnny Corps at Shrewsbury t aslle, Knjrland, recently.—A.t\ Picture. A.P-Picture.
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    63 12 A.P. Kfc.HOVOX, ISRAfcL, y J Thurs. An 18-year-old i youth was jailed lor sev- yen days today lor chew- I ing gum in court. The i j juuge had rebuked him I anil got the reply. "It i» i none uf your business." j "It is,"
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    OLD SOAP
    62 12 A.P. NEW YORK, Thurs. A cake of soap that has 'xm owned by his family tor fjur generations and is nearly MM year old is kept a dreaae-l drawer by Richard McL New York Boy Scout tOUtfX tive. The cake of soap was one of the first manufr.ctur-1i
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    Soldiers Remember Fallen Comrades
    174 12 TRIBTNF STAFF REPORTER Men of the Suffolk and Cambridgeshire rejrinient who fell in the Malayan Campaign or died in subsequent capitivitv. were yester day remembered by the newly arrived members of the SurTolks at Kranji War Gray yesterday The service which was mm* simple but trapveochre,
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    BANKERS WAGES UP
    42 12 A.P. SHANGHAI Thurs. Th* British owned Hongkong Na- i tional Bank has granted wage increases to Chinese employee* i rangmg from 27 to 40* p. cent, retrospective from July i 1. Workers had asked for 62 per cent. —A.P.
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    23 12 CAIRO. Thurs. The Egyptian Government announced creation of a n&gt; w province Fouadia. nan d after the late King Fouad of Egypt.
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    BID FAREWELL
    31 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Wt d The High Commissioner. Sir Henry uurnc&gt;. will be soing to Sungei Besi today where he will give an address of farewell to the Grenadier Guards.
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    VARSITY FUND
    16 12 Donations to the Unto* ratty of Malaya Endowment Fund leached $131.761.64. on July 12.
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    They Sailed For U.K.
    93 12 TwenU-two year old Miss ■MM I: berts. a bride-t,,-!&gt;,• in England, left tain morning in the IS.M.S. Canton. Esme, i* to marry Maurice Osier &gt;f Hartfordxhire next month. The &lt;ouple met when Oafsf wa* serving here in the K. .F. la si \ear. Mr. Ihomas Edward
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    SUCCESSFUL JUMPS FROM 550 mph 'SHOOTING STAR'
    167 12 SUCCESSFUL JUMPS FROM 550 mph 'SHOOTING STAR U.P. HAMILTON FIELD. Cahfoi**nia. Thuis.- The successful completion of parachute jumps from a plane travelling at 550 miles an hour, the highest speed at which man has left an airplane, was announced today by the Air Force. The test jumps were made by
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    Search Goes On Despite Heavy Rain
    261 12 THREE BODIES STILL MISSING A.P. BOMBAY. Thursday. THE search for three bodies still missing from the X.L.M. airliner crash last Tuesday continued today in the ravine at the foot of Ghatkopar Hill despite incessant rain. One more body was identified by the American ambassador.
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    French Eye Burma Border
    76 12 SAIGO::. Thurs. army foices a:--j trating amid mount I sion along the front) twecn Burma ar.;j &lt; tiie semi-official Frai j Agency ar.nounc The agency repoi I cial source as nyii I Chinese hanri j i frontier and besieged r"T j Indochinese post of Than Peung.
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    LONDON SHARES
    124 12 Reuter. LONDON*. T. ura meal position in th&lt; gether with port helped to kee| prices firm today the London Sto k per;enced a a.. operators awaitim in the London do- k Commodity pr: e» newed InWM, were marked hitt,--in the United Kit I the metal. Rubber Tii Conner
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    2 Million Lives In Danger As Floods Swing To North
    230 12 U.P. SHANGHAI. Thursday. T&lt;HE New China Agency said today that the w River broke its banks in two places. It said at the same time in central Hopei province the Pangto river—a Haiho river tributarypunched five breaches in the embankment
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    MR. GILMOUR'S STATEMENT
    164 12 The text of Mr. Andrew I Gilmoui's piomised statement I on the position of Singapoie j in the Anglo-Dutch agreement of Febcruary. 1949 has been 1 published by the Singapoie j Public Relations Office. In a letter vritten to Mi. |"P. H. Westermann. the Mi I A.
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    MORE ADVICE
    38 12 U.P. HONGKONG. T Japanese people, v. .&gt; al rrently cxntiMM lug pn IDI eat on birtn contr n r information direct fl MMarrrarct Sa'.L r, leading vocate of Manned Pel t hood, according to the 'ctral News.—CP.
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