Malaya Tribune, 8 August 1949

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    65 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE by im PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tet Tnbune" Spore LARGER SALES 'MAN ANY AFFERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 5811/3 Nine Lines rubk*nma nmultun*ou*iy at Mngap<ne, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh on d Penang. EIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice
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    Charles Gets First Train Ride
    112 1 A.P. LONDON. Sun. pRTNCE Charles, who will I be nine months old on Ist 14, ended his hist i,-arly on Saturday. The royal baby, nicknamed nic Prince Charlie", travelled through the night to Ballater, Scotland—a 583 14'- hour ride —in his own nursery suite in
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    HATTA MEETS NEHRU
    44 1 U.P. NEW DELHI, Sun. It was announced today that Indonesian Piemier Mohammed Hatta will address the members of the Indian Constituent As erabty on Monday. Hatta confei red witn Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru after arriving at Willlngrdom airport this afternoon.
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    RITA WINS
    27 1 A.P. DEAL'VTLLE, France. Sun. Rita Hayworth's filly. Double Rose, won the Prix de la Municipahte here on Sunday. Double Rose enriched Rita by 4UO.UOU rrancs.--A.P.
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    MARTIAL LAW OFF
    30 1 A.P. IfciHEHAN, Sun.—Martial iaw was discontinued on Sunday in Teheran. It was proclaimed in February after an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the Shah of Iran.—A.P.
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    LOAN FOR PERSIA
    29 1 Reuter TEHhRA.N, Sun. Persia ha.< asked the United States for aid amounting to $129,--000,000 to restore prewar conditions. Foreign Minister A i Asghar Hekmat said today.—Reuter.
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    RUN OUT FROM CANTON HAS COMMENCED
    357 1 £ANTON, Sunday. Nationalist documents and other property were being taken from Canton to Chungking by every available plane this weekend according to Chinas© reports reaching Hongkong. Local quarters thought this was part of the Government's preparations to evacuate Canton if it becomes untenable. An
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    Wot! No Gurkhas In Malaya?
    88 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Sun. The Nepal National Congiess "is against the recruitment of Gurkha soldiers to the British Army and their use in Malaya," Mi. B. P. Koiiaia. Nepal nationalist leader said here today. Mi. Koirala, who today met Indian Premier Pandit Nehru, did not
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    LEOPOLD SAYS HE WILL ABDICATE
    78 1 U.P. BRUSSELS, Sun. Seliexiled King Leopold of Be.gium said today that he would abdicate in favour of m.s 18-year-old son Prince Baudouin if he failed to get an "incontestable" majority in a proposed plebiscite on his return to the throne. But he refused to say
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    $175 Million Aid To China Mooted
    256 1 WASHINGTON, Sunday. While high U.S. officials are working on a plan to carry out Secretary of State Dean Acheson's policy of blocking Communism in the Far East, a U.C. senator proposes $175,000,000 aid for China. Republican Senator William Knowland today demanded that General Douglas
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    NEW QUEEN OF SINGAPORE
    71 1 Miss Vnny Cheng, won the title of Ihe Happy World's 1949 Qu-vn at the :ni?ual ejection heM on Sunday night in the Happy World Cabaret by securing 5,097 votes from her fans. Miss Tham Lai Yong (right) came second with 2,869 votes, and Miss Chan Mah
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    Equador Quake Is World's Worst
    234 1 DEATH TOLL NOW 5,000 U.P. A.P. QUITO, Equador, Sunday. The earthquake which devastated parts of Equador and took seooo lives struck with such force that it changed the entire landscape of the affected areas. Thi w i »t|»»cd Dr. Aristoba) Oofnrjo today Sides of mountains
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    QUIRINO IN U.S.
    25 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Sun. Philippine President Eipidio today arrived here on us flying trip to Washington t o confer witn American government officials.
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    AUSTERITY FOR S'HAI ENDORSED
    79 1 U.P. SHANGHAI. Sunday. Sixhundred delegates at a threeday conference held here supported the official Communi d policy to st.-or Shanghai ?;w from foreign trade and develop national todttsttie The delegates also endois<r. 1 the austerity plan and adopteda resolution to set a Shanghai i branch cf
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    METEOR SET UP WORLD RECORD
    191 1 A.P. RUSHTON, England. Sunday. A Gloster Meteor landed late today after twelve hours and three minutes aloft and the pilot claimed a new world's record for refuelled jet-powered flight. Patrick Hornidge .irought the jet fighter down on Tarrant airfield at 4.23 p.m. le had taken
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    NO SERUM SOLD HERE
    58 1 The pilot of a Pacific Overseas Airways (Siam) aircraft tried this morning to obtain supplies of a vaccine agai LSt antnrax for some noises which j>re sick in Bangkok. Enquiries at the Government Vett rinary office proved fruitless, as the supply or tm.vaccine is very shot.
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    Diggers Help End Unemployment
    129 1 Reuter —AAP. SYDNEY, Sunday. New South Wales ractories, stilled by the six-week-old miners stoppage, will begin rumbling into action again tomorrow on equal coal hewn by troops in the State's open-cast fields. About 119.000 men made ide by the strike of 23.000 miners are expected to
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    LONELY HEARTS IN TROUBLE
    164 1 A.P. PRAGUE. Sun. Marriage advertisements have been banned from Czechoslovak newspapers because they make marriage a capitalistic business transaction, the Communist organ. Rude Pravo. said today. Some lonely hearts, however, are finding ways of meeting by employing such ruses as advertising for "housekeepers," the paper added.
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    MORE EARTH TREMORS
    112 1 A.P. QUITO. Ecuador, Sun.— Two fresh tremors rocked Ambato and Rio Bamba today, sending fear through hundreds of rescuers labouring on the slopes of the Andes. Early reports did not mention whether new damage or casualties was caused. A heavy pane crashed in the quake area on
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    WORLD RADIO MEET
    52 1 A.P. STR ESS A. ITALY. Sun. Russia. Britain and Ireland arc among nations represented at Stressa at a conference on the nification of the International Organisation of Radio Broadcasting and the International Union of Broadcasting. Other nations represented are Czechoslovakia. Rumania. Fiance, Belgium, Holland. Switzerland. Dcnmaik and
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    NEW PILL CURE
    30 1 A.P. CHICAGO, Sun. —The HeraldAmerican reported in a copyrighted story on Sunday that a >i.i has been discovered which 's a three-day permanent cure fci malaria. A.P.
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    13 FIRE VICTIMS
    28 1 A.P. HELENA, MONTANA. Sun.—Thirteen men lost their lives fighting a vast forest tire centred on a mountain area 25 miles northeast of Helen."., rvn Sunday.—A.P.
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    'BARTER RUBBER FOR U. S. COTTON, TOBACCO'
    228 2 Reuter. Gammans LONTX)N, Sunday. 1/IR. L. D. Gammans, Conservative member of Parliament, today suggested a quantitative barter deal of rubber for cotton and tobacco between Britain and the United States in a letter in today's Sunday Times. "It is to be hoped that
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    World Uses More Rubber
    268 2 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Sun. WORLD consumption of natural rubber, which is one of Malaya's and Indonesia's key dollar earners, exceeded world production during the first six months of '1949 by 32,500 long tons and consumption in the same period in 1948 by 52.500 long tons, according to
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    13 FIREFIGHTERS DIE IN FOREST
    69 2 U.P. HELENA, Montana. Sun.— Eleven firefighters were killed and two others trapped and presumed dead as a 3,000 acres forest fire got out of control north of here tonight. All but one of the dead were believed to have been .members of a 15-man crew
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    REDS SAY U. S. ARMING 'BANDITS'
    92 2 A.P. SAN FRANCISCO. Sun. The Chinese Communists alleged on Saturday that American imperialism" was arming and supplying "bandits r.nd secret agents" to disturb the Communist rear areas. A Peiping broadcast, heard in San Francisco by the Associated Press, declared, "American imperialists are placing gTeat
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    He Makes Busts
    54 2 eulptor Jacob Tarecon of 14 Queen Street, who has made a six-inch bronze bust of Mr. Malcolm MacDopald, the Commissioner General. Among other pieces he has made busts of the late Mr. Mahatma Gandhi, Fnnce Charles with his mother Princess Elizabeth, and an Imag a ol Muthappen,
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    'Smooth Alibi' Says Pat Hurley
    208 2 U. S. White Paver U.P. WASHINGTON, Sunday. DATRICK HURLEY, who was a Roosevelt ambassador to China, today described the State Department white paper on Chinese affairs as "a smooth alibi for the pro-Communists in the State Department who have engineered the overthrow of our ally,
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    Japan Is Key To Entire Ear East
    177 2 A.P. COLUMBUS, OHIO, Sunday. JAPAN is the key to the entire Far Eastern situation, the wartime commander of the U.S. Eighth Army said yesterday. "So long as Russia does not control the island chain, and particularly the main islands of Japan," said Lt.-Gen.
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    'DON'T ABANDON CHINA'
    171 2 U.P. WASHINGTON. Sun—Senator Arthur Vandenberg tonight called on President Truman's government to make it "relentlessly clear" ihat China will not be abandoned to the communists. The Republican Foreign policy leader attributed failure in the Far East to "tragic mistakes" on the part of both the United Stales
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    Canton Opinion Divided
    87 2 A.P. CANTON, Sun. Chinese opinion was divided on Saturday night on whether there ever again would be American aid for Nationalist China. A Government spokesman said official reaction to the United States white paper on China—which was issued on Friday in Washington— could not be expected for
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    BUT THE PRESS SEES WARNING
    49 2 A.P. LONDON, Sun. London I newspapers saw a warning of j armed'force in United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson'y statement on China. I Acheson said that America j should encourage China to i "throw off the foreign yoke,'' :of Soviet oriented Commui nism.—A.P
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    U.S. Officers In Pacific To Confer
    100 2 A.P. WASHINGTON. Sun. United States military at- taches stationed in 12 countries of the Pacific area are to hold their third annua! Pacific and Far East conference in Honolulu in September. The attaches will gather from CI line, the Philippines. j Singapore, Indonesia. Burma.
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    KAMPONG GUARDS KILL $10,000-BANDIT
    284 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. fl\E terrorist bundit leader, Wan Ali, known in the Jeraatut area of Pahang I as the king of the invulnerability cult, ?.nd who has often boasted that he roold only be killed by a silver bullet, has met his death at the hands
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    SULTAN PRAISES FORCES
    99 3 LTJMPXJK Sumpi of Kedah in a i I i iho occasion of j i thday ha? thanked I the S'avy and the j dxeir paiiant fight I ,st bandits in their effort I r law ai»d or.ler in j the ten* iltan also made menUK Special Constables
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    BRIND PAYS A TRIBUTE
    63 3 Admira' Sir Patrick Brlnd, C-iri-C, Fa? East Station, i tribute during a broadcast ever Radio MalayA. list night, to the men of the A: thy t. He said, -Lieutenant Commander Kerans beerfttl and alert As always, rot only did the ii inspire his sutordibut he himself
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    Ceylonese Meet To Discuss Citizenship
    280 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. PEYLOXESE representatives/from all over Malaya assembled at the Vivekananda Ashram Hail here, this morning to discuss the question of "citizenship" and passed the following resolutions: That the Ceylon Government ho requested to rcconHdei Section 19 of the Ceylon Citizen Act of 1948.
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    SS MEN GET DEATH PENALTY
    108 3 Reuter. I.ILLE. Sun. A Frencn military tribunal here today sentenced to death eight out of nine SS men charged with taking part in a massacre of S6 French men and boys at Asco near Lille in April, 1944. The ninth accused was sentenced to 15
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    VARSITY WEEK IN OCTOBER
    103 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Central Appeal Committee comprising of delegates from each State and Settlement in the Federation and Singanore he'd a meeting ?t trie State Council Chamber, looh, yesterday with the Vice Chancellor of the University. Or. G. V. Allen presiding. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald
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    CARS COLLIDE
    45 3 A motor car going to Johore collided with a taxi at 3' 4 mile stone Bukit Timah Road, yesterday afternoon. Both cars were badly damaged. The taxi driver's knee was injured, but his two passengers and the driver of other car escaped uninjured.
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    DROWNED
    19 3 An Indian was believed drowned last night at the 3rd mile stone Potong Paalr, The police are investigating.
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    GHQ Signals Win Cup
    67 3 The Commander Royal Elect! ical Mechanical Engineers, Singapore District, yesterday presented the C.R.E.M.E. Cup to G.H.Q. Sgnal Regiment at Tycrsall Camp. The Cup, awarded to tne Signal Unit with the best standard ci mechanical vehicle maintenance, was competed for by G. H. Signal nent, 19 Air
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    Indians Urged To Be Malayans
    144 3 MALAYAN Indians should identify themselves [n entirely with Malaya, said Mr. V. Pakrisamy, re-elected President of the Indo-Malayan Association at its tenth annual general meeting yesterday.^ born Indians who have received our education here. The country has to the vast majority of us. become our
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    STAND COLLAPSES
    25 3 U.P. RHINEBECK, New York. Sun.—Thirty people were taken to hospital for treatment after a section of the grandstand at the Rhinebcck speedway collapsed.--U.P.
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    Film Chief In S'pore
    51 3 Mr. Have Gould, managingdirector of United Artists I Corporation in the Philippine I Islands, and Mrs. Gould, who I are on a visit to the Colony en route to New York. Mr. Gould has been connected I with the motion picture Indus- I try for M
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    SHANGHAI SLUMP HITS, THE MONKS
    105 3 U.P. SHANGHAI, Sun. Shanghai's business depression is beginning to mak- itself felt in Buddnist temples and is affecting the livelihood of thousands of monks. With revenues dropping as worshippers dwindle or spend less for Joss sticks and ancestral ceremonies many temples are doing productive work
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    I Am Exhausted, Unhappy—Bergman
    212 3 U.P. NEW YORK, Sunday. Th# New York Post columnist Earl Wilson said in a dispatch from Rome today that Ingrid Bergman told him in an exclusive interview that she is quitting the film industry because she is exhausted and unhappy and wants privacy. Miss Bergman said
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    RAIL SMASH
    44 3 Reuter. LONDON, Sun. Thirtythree people w. re injured at Euston, one of London's main stations, today when a crowded train about to leave was hit by an empty train entering the station to pick up passengers. Twentytiiree people were treated in hospital.—Reuter.
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    NEGROES QUAKE WITH LAUGHTER BEFORE THE K.K.K.
    752 4  -  The terror which the Klu Klux Klan—'the hooded hoodlums—once inspired is diminishing As the "sheeted jerks" march past, Negroes lining the road grin broadly and coffee coloured children hll in behind drumming loudly on tin pans. by BEN PRICE A.P. ATLANTA THE attitude
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    One Country, One People, One Government
    569 4 QUOTE, from a statement by Mr. Tan Cheng Lock, President of tho Malayan Chinese Association, August 6, 1949: "I have always advocated the establishment of a united Malaya. One country, one people, one government that should be the goal of all our political actions.
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    WHITE PLANTERS ARE UNEASY OVER 'CARGO CULT'
    995 4  -  A strange cult is sweeping through the native villages in New Guinea, causing mass hysteria and anti-white demonstrations. Men, motionless and silent, sit with their backs to t:bles decorated with flowers placed in beer bottles. By A Correspondent Reuter-AAP. CANBERRA. THE existence of
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    GREEKS BLAMED
    84 4 Reuter. BULGARIA has accused Greece of sole responsibility for the breakdown of Balkan negotiations aimed at restoring friendly relations between Albania. Bulgaria. Yugoslavia and Greece. In a letter to Mr. Byron Price, the Acting Secretary General of the United Nations. Mr. Vassil Kolarov, Bulgarian Foreign Minister, said: "Thanks
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    REVOLT BREAKS OUT IN TIBET
    680 4  -  Mysterious, mountain locked Tibet has become the focal point for international political intrigue. by R. SATAKOPAN A.P. NEW DELHI MYSTERIOUS, mountainrocked Tibet suddenly is in a dim kind of limelight. Vague reports filtering into India recently from this 475.-000-square mile Himalayan country indicated that a
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    30-Year Plan To Rebuild Hiroshima
    137 5 A.P. TOKYO, Sun. JVNESE heard about :r:i today but the different from that ago when the bomb laid the city waste. the news concerned s 30-yeur-plan for which in itself sting example of peaceful community calls for replanrity through three turing the first Aye Utl
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    "YOU'RE A LIAR M SAID THE BISHOP
    111 5 LONDON, Sun.—The Bif Chelmsford. Dr. Henry D, said "You're a liar," when a man was giving evidence at Chelmsfortd Magistrates' Court. Abraham Stein. Greengrocer, of Park Ridings. Hornsey. was charged with dangerous or careless driving. It was alleged his car swerved across the
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    REUNION OF PEN PALS
    108 5 A.P. TOKYO, Sun.—An American army officer and his Japanese "pen pal" met for r it time today and rea friendship began 12 years ago by mail. The reunion, which took place in the Tokyo office of the Associated Press, brought iptain Harold P. G. H. Thomas
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    FOUND STOLEN GEMS AFTER 12 YEARS
    173 5 Reuter. LONDON, Sunday. JEWELS worth £5,000, stolen from hotel guests 12 years ago, have been found in an old ch?st. The hotel—the Queen's, Cliftonville—was closed when the war started, and the furniture was sold, apart from the chest and a few odd pieces. Mr.
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    BERLINER BALLADE
    34 5 A.P. EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sun.—The German film Berliner Ballade will be presented at the opening performance of the annual Edinburgh Music end Drama Festival on August 21, the festival managers announced yesterday.— A.P.
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    £10,000 FOR SERVICEMEN'S DEPENDENTS
    111 5 A.P. JOHANLESBURG, Sun. The Lord Mayor of Ix)ndon will shortly receive £10.000 for needy dependents of Britain's ex-servicemen. The money was left in the will cf Stanley Banks, a wealthy retired chemist of Cape Towr., who also bequeathed f6,000 for similar purpose in New Zealand, and
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    Roman Who Liked Oysters
    93 5 J LONDON, Sun. A I Ron'an who lived at K\ n.ifurd. Kent, son* 1,600 years ago, evidently liked oysters. On the sit<» of a Roman villa there has been found a great earthenware jar in which, it is thought, oysters were preserved in water, for hundreds
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    PULLED OUT GOOD TEETH
    61 5 LONDON, Sun.—A dentist was alleged at Nottingham to have taken 26 good teeth from a 30-year-old Health Service patient, and to have chai £ed him £4 7s. 6d. The cnairman of an Inquiry committee said "He is a public menace. He must not be allowed to
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    GOLD BARS MADE UNDERGROUND
    215 5 j LONDON, Sunday. THE Customs believe there is an underground 1 gold factory somewhere in Britain or Eire, dealing in illicit bullion. The theory follows examination by the chief assayer of the Goldsmiths Company of gold bullion seized from a ship's captain. The gold was being
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    BIT OFF NOSE OF RIVAL IN LOVE
    104 5 A.P. LONDON. Sun.- Mahmud Ali, 30-year-old tailor was accused yesterday of biting off the nose of his rival in love. He was detained by the Old Street Magistrate's Court for a hearing on Aug. 23 on a formal charge of inflicting grievous bodily
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    HE LIFTED THE WRONG PARCEL
    109 5 Reuter—AAP SYDNEY. Sun.—What a magistrate described as an ingenious method, failed because a male shop-lifter overestimated the power of a powerful magnet. It was stated in court that the shop-lifter carried what appeared to be a neatlywrapped parcel, but actually it was a box which
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    Women Demanded Solid Facts
    231 5 Reuter. MANILA, Sunday. Even "double-dealing" politicians find it tough going when it comes to winning female ballots. Not only are Filipino women voters intelligent and well-informed—that is, those who exercise their suffrage during elections—but they are very prac-tical-minded. This was adequately demonstrated recently when representative of
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    ATOMIC BEAUTY
    23 5 Sixteen-year-old Jean Theobald was chosen "Miss Atomic Energy" in a beauty contest at the staff sports of Didcot Atomic Research Station.
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    MIXED GRILL
    25 5 A package of ham and bacon flew the Atlantic, yesterday a present from Mr. C. Onions, a Canadian, to Mrs. Spam, of Burton-on-Trent.
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    MR. BOYLE MADE A 'VERY SPECIAL BED'
    81 5 LONDON, Sun. Princess Elizabeth .slept recently at Clarence House in a very special bed. It was one of a pa' iade on the Princess's orocrs by Mr. Arthur Boyle, a small upholsterer in East Acton. They are a special size 3ft. I'-in. wide,
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    BAMBI THE DEER GOES SHOPPING TOO.....
    169 5 LONDON, Sun.-—Bambi, a «*l\-vv*»ek-nld baby deer, follows 20-year-old Brenda Venn »vhen »rte goes shopping at Nether Btow;y, in Somerset's Quantock Hills. A friend found Bambi a month ago forlorn among the whortle-berries, and Brenda added her to her private circus (admission 2d., for the
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    30 5 Mrs. V. Jansz thanks all riends relatives for the /reaths A. telegrams and those Artio attended the funeral of her ion L. O. Jansz of Telecoms, Singapore. Died 3.8.49.
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      54 5 LEE ABNER by A CapiJ feg^asg^f^^C-^irx^^^l >- L s^i N r/(^^^7 |,LLRtAD WFAN L UL GJtf' I L***?*/*' r>V Jf ON MARCH X 3 (MAIL. THAT'LL TELLi L k V THE THIRTEENTH.^) ALLEY OOP by V. T. Hamlin (THAT'S A TO HAVE ASNAZ2V /V NOTHIN'. DCC.' BUT I DON'T... BUT
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    STEADY ALL ROUND, WITH FAIR BUSINESS
    907 6 SHARE MARKET LAST WEEK (By A Market Correspondent) IN the four days remaining after the Bank Holiday there was a fair turnover on Malayan markets and a steady note prevailed through all sections. Business in dollar tins was confined to few counters. Petaling were
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    JELAPANG TIN—£45,764 PROFIT
    217 6 lELAPANG Tin Dredging Ltd., announce a profit J of £45,764 for the year ending December 31, 1948 after providing for depreciation and depletion. A sum of £10,000 was provided for Malayan income tax and a five-shilling dividend paid on April 16, 1949 absorbed £24,000. M This leaves
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    Produce Market
    77 6 About 700 bags of sago flour Siak changed hands in the Singapore produce markets on Saturday. About 300 bags v.er<_ sold on Friday. Business »vas done at the level of $10 1/4 for better quality hour and }9% for th*» next variety. Black pepper gained $10 reaching $410
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    AIR MAIL
    60 6 Latest time for airmails Ceylon. Batavia. Palembang, Sourabaya will be 6.00 p.m. Airmail for the Federation will be 11.15 p.m. today. Latest time for mails to Dabo SingKep will be 4.00 p.m. Mails arc expected today from Brunei. North Borneo. Sarawak. Japan, Guam. Hawaii, Midway Islands, Philippines, Wake
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    SEA MAIL
    39 6 Mails from Thailand, Sarawak, I i;it»»d Kingdom, Eire, Europe, Egypt, Africa, West Indies Ceylon and the Federation are expected today. Latest time for posting at the G.r.O. for Hong Kong, China und Palembang will be noun today.
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    Rubber Very Steady
    92 6 THE rubber commodity market was very steady on Saturday with sellers not veiy Keen. A fair vo'ume ot business passed and Ihe market ruled steady througniut tbe haH day Closing prices wore: Buyers Sellers No. 1 Aug. RSS 33 3R% No. 2 Aug. RSS 31'- Sl?fc No.
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    LOAN SOUGHT
    46 6 U.P. WASHINGTON, Sun. The Intct national Bank for Reconstruction and Development has received a foimal request from the Indian government for an unspecified loan 10 aid in the rehabilitation of its railway system, reclamation and irrigation of land and development of electric power. —U.P.
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    Larut Tin Fields —£117,460 Profit
    231 6 I ARUT Tin Fields Ltd., made a profit of £117.460 for the year ending December 1948, after providing for depreciation and depletion. A sum of £25,000 has been appropriated for Malayan income tax. Another £48,000 was absorbed by the 4' ,d--dividend less tax paid on
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    More £ For Ceylon
    47 6 More For Ceylon Reuter. LONDON. Sun. Britain's j new Sterling balance agree--1 ment with Ceylon just conJ eluded here may provide foi I a slightly higher rate of I releases to Ceylon than those i under the J948 agreement, j usually well informed quartI ers believe. -Reuter.
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    ENDING
    34 6 A.P. NEW YORK. Sun. U.S. dominated of world textile markets is rapidly ending, reports Frederick W. Richmond, President of U.S. Foreign Corporation. "European textile manufac turcs have been gradually repairing and modernising mills."—A.P.
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      699 6 MANSFIELD CO. Lm (Incorporated In Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE Camera' option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo. Sailings from U.K. U.S.A. j "Tvdeus" rrom U.K.. .Aug. 21 I "Calchas" from U.K/Cont Aug 21 "Titan" from U.K. Aug. 22 "Alcincus" from U.K. Aug. 25 "Eumaeus"from U.K. Sept.
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      324 6 Tin Exports: Full Figures THE following is a break down of Maiayan tin shipment figures for July, issued by Straits Trading Co.. Ltd. The total exported from January to July was 30.627 tons, and the breakdown for the per od is shown in the second table. JULY 1949. South South
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    S.C.C. GAIN ONLY OUTRIGHT WIN
    1174 7 JHE Singapore Cricket Club beat ihe Colonials Cricked Club by 105 runs yesterday, to gain the only outright victory in the Singapore Cricket Association's tournament matches. The Singapore Recreation Club and the Ceylon Sports Club gained first innings points over R.A.F. Seletar and R.A.F. Changi,
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    McMAHON stops a fast one in the Malaya Cup match between tie Army-Navy and Sin gapore at Jalan Besar Stadium, >esterday. Army-Navy won 3-0 Tribune Picture.
    26 7 McMAHON stops a fast one in the Malaya Cup match between tie Army-Navy and Sin gapore at Jalan Besar Stadium, >esterday. Army-Navy won 3-0 Tribune Picture.
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    Bowlers Tire On Good Wickets
    357 7 Reuter. LONDON, Sunday. gOWLERS had a tiring day on good wickets in most of yesterday's county championship cricket matches. Middlesex and Worcestershire, first and second respectively in the table, both had considerable scores hit off their attack. a great third wicket partnership of 191 by
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    COUNTY CRICKET POSITIONS
    169 7 LONDON, S»n. Positions iv the English County Cricket hampioashtp table including the «erie* uf matches which ended yesterday are as fallows:astisri p w "LDf. Middlesex- 20 10 1 9 0 v ~> 140 Wore. It J) 5 5 0 14 128 Warwieks 1» 8 3 7 1
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    Best Batsmen, Bowlers
    196 7 Reuter. HATTING It. T. Simpsoni (Notts) »4 7 1949 238 72 18 I. Hardstaff (■MI) »9 Mf] IGa Xy John Langridge (Sussex! 4» I 2395 234 64.72 W. Kee ton (Notts) 27 1 1639 MB 63 03 L. Hutton (Yorks) 39 I 2113 201 62.14 M.F. UoaaeUy
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    Grieves may not tour India
    101 7 Reuter. BURY, Sun.—Ken Grieves, the Australian all rounder who plays for Lancashire, is unlikely to accept the invitation to tour India this winter with the British Empire Cricket team. Grieves, wno plays goalkeeper for Bury, the Second Division team, resigned foi that club today. Bury
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    OPENING FIXTURES FOR WORLD SOCCER CUP
    219 7 A.P. ZURICH. Switzerland. bun.— A series of some European zone preliminary fixtures for the 1950 World Soccer Cup Tournament in Brazil was .-.nnounced at Zurich yesterday by the International Association Football Federation. Final arrangements for play offs in the South American and Asian zones
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      370 7 THE BANKRUPTCY j ORDINANCE (Chapter 45) In the High Court of the Colony of Singapore. Island of Singapore. IN BANKRUPTCY. No. 47 of j 1949. RE (1) S. Peter MurugasanJ Receiving Order made 22nd July, 1949. Date of Adjudication 22nd 1 July. 1949. j Date and place of First Meet-!
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      952 7 SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY TENDERS (For particulars see. Tender Room, Ground Floor, Municipal Office) WATER DEPARTMENT: Laying and Testing of 60 inch Steel Pipeline across Johore Causeway. Tender Deposit $500. Forms etc. from Municipal Water Engineer (Room 313). Tenders to Municipal Secretary: close NOON 31/8/49. ARCHITECT'S DEPARTMENT: Running of Refreshment Stall at
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    TWO S'PORE PLAYERS SENT OFF FIELD
    747 8  -  Army-Navy Enter Malaya Cup Final By PHILLIP GOH COR the first time since the Malaya Cup competition was started in 1921 Services team entered tiie final yesterday, when the Army Navy beat Singapore by three goals to nil at Jalan Besar Stadium. Army-Navy will
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    Richards' 150th Win
    35 8 A.P. LEWES, England, sun. —QWNlaa Richards, Britain's champion jockey, adde.l his 150 th winner of 1943 season yesterday, when X rode bocM THE ACCUSED to take the liijfmer two y»jar old pate.—A.P.
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    YUGOSLAVIA WIN AGAIN
    45 8 AAP. MELBOURNE, Sun. Yugoslavia beat Australia by tnrec goals to zero at the Melbourne cricket ground today in the second soccer international between the two coun cries. Yugoslavia won the first matcn at Sydney last Saturday by three goals to two. Reuter—AAP.
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    FRANCO SAFE
    31 8 A.P. SAIn SEBASTIAN. SPAIN. Sun.- -Personal aides of Generalissimo Francisco Fianco on Saturday denied ail reports that the Spanish leader had met With some sort of an accident. -A.P.
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    England's 4th Test Team
    125 8 A.P. LONDON, Sun.—England* cricket team to play New Zealand in the fourth Test match beginning at the Oval on August IS was selected today lrom the following twelve players. F. L. Brown (Northamptonshire), captain; W. J. Edrich (Middlesex); T. E. Bailey (E*sex); R. T. Simpson (Nottinghamshire);
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    Move To Extend Tests To 4 Days
    265 8 LONDON, Sunday. pOLLOWLNO the inability of England or New Zealand to force a win in the first three Tests of the present series, there is a new move pfoot to have the tests against next year's West Indies team extended to four days
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    WOMEN SET UP TWO NEW RECORDS
    126 8 Reuter. LONDON, Sun. —Two world records were set up here yesterday when a women's Southern counties team won a mile and a half relay (three times 880 yards) in 7 mins. 7.H sees, at the London versus Gothenburg athletics meeting at the White City.
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    MacDonald Has A Narrow Shave
    241 8 The occasion was the Lotus Club's Gala Day at the South Winds Hotel, at Balai. near Jurong, which was hold to raise funds for the University of Malaya. Over 800 persons paid five dollars to visit the hotel grounds to watch a programme of sailing
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    Charles Is 4 To 1 Favourite
    92 8 U.P. NEW YORK. Sun. -Ezzard Charles, new world heavyweight champion will make his first defence of the title when he meets Gus Lesnevich at the Yankee Stadium next Wednesday night. Charles, who is recognised as champion only by the National Boxing Association, was favoured
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    ST. ANDREW'S SCHOOL WIN
    99 8 St. Andrew? S< hoed beat thr Swimmins Club 4 3 M table-tennis played at St. Anutevt s S<hooi, Woodsv.lic. Results were: SINGLES: Chung Chen* t"3Ur* beat guek Bag Himt 3—o; J. Owen lost to chong Ktm Ht-on.;. 1 3; G. Oehlers (Capt.i lost to Yew Win*.
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    Hardstaff, Harris In Big Unbeaten Stand
    243 8 Reuter. NOTTINGHAM, Sunday. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, helped by an unfinished n fourth wicket stand of 163 by Joe Hardstaff and Charles Harris, yesterday put on 303 for three against the New Zealanders on the first day of their match here. The tourists, playing without their fast
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    Death Warning To Catholics
    179 8 U.P. WARSAW, Sun.-The Polish Council of State today warned Catholics that they face Jail and even death in some cases if they "misuse" religion to oppose the regime. The warning was carried in a new decree on religion published in all newspapers throughout the nation and
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY
    207 8 General INTERN ATI.IN iUTKI ASSOCIATION tish r*ouncil Hall BOYS BBIGADI Baualion Coi i> Prinsep B4 reel BnroATOBR DISTI II I ITF Meeting of d< Institute 5.30 p.n WegJty Chun:h. SIN HA I. A 111 DDHIST It Mil I Full Moon Da) 7.00. 11.00 a.m. and 7.« Sermon
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