Malaya Tribune, 9 August 1949

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    65 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tdb Tribune" Spore LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA 1 Phone 5811/3 Nine Una f*l>U»**<i Mtnuitanwustg u« atngapore, auum uumpur, I pun an d tenung. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE:
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    QUAKE TOLL NOW TOTALS 9,241
    489 1 Mercy Planes Fly In Medicines Reuter, A.P. U.P. QUITO, Monday. Official reports on the damage caused by the greatest earthquake in history that devastated Ecuador on Friday, say that fifty cities and towns were damaged and an estimated 9,241 people killed. Three towns with a
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    Formosans Want Freedom
    115 1 Reuter. HONGKONG, Mon. -Thirteen Formosan organisations with headquarters in Hongkong today announced the formation of a Formosan Emancipation Army pledged to drive the Chine se Nationalists from Formosa (Taiwan). They also expressed opposition to the Chinese Communiati and said they hoped to rid the island of Chinese
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    ALBANIA INVADED
    70 1 U.P. ROME. Mon. Radio Tuane I char ged ia a broadcast yester I day that Yugos'av troop; have invaded .-vioanian ten.lory j the Italian News Agency Astr. j reported today. lt said the charge was mad during a broadcast heard b I the Agency's Monitor at Trieste. A.P.
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    KKK 'IMPERIAL EDICT'
    111 1 A.P. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. Mon.—Dr. Samuel Green, imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan today issued an "imperial edict threatening clansmen with banishment if they appear on any street, read or voaring mask or visor. His order followed an incident on Saturday night in which one armed Mayor
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    SHAH TO SEE U.S.A.
    51 1 A.P. TEHERAN. Mon. The Shah of Iran is to pay an official visit to the United States in late November, his iirst trip to America. He told the Associated Press that his visit la taking him to Washington, New York. Detroit. Los Angeles and other cities.
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    Arms Aid For Far East Would Help
    172 1 U.P ACHESON WASHINGTON, Monday. Secretary of State Dean Acheson told the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees today that a small amount of arms aid for the Far East would have "considerable possibilities of usefulness" but urged that it should not be
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    INDONESIANS PASS THROUGH
    58 1 Thirty-six Indonesian officials Including the Sultan of Solo. H. H. Pakoa Buwono and H. H. the Mangkunegoro passed through Singapore this morning by X.L.M. Constellation on their way to the Hague round-table conference. Dr. Zain of the Indonesia Office. Singapore is not meeting them as he is
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    CHINESE REDS MEET
    34 1 Chines*- Communist (Tia'r.nan. Mao Tze-tunrj (centre, hand, clasped), attending the IViping «onterenee ,'une 19 a« which plans wen- mad:« to estaVsh Communist-dominate 1 "coalition" Government at some unvMnMtied time nevt autumn.
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    Jet Flying Boats For S'pore
    246 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) SIR Miles Thomas, Chairmen of 8.0.A.C. has asked technical experts to rej)ort possibilities of operating six 50 or 60- v? iter jet flying boats on British Commonwealth or rans-Atlantic routes, it was ane<*tm> j lX i^n^ t yegtefday. liie crart must or
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    ABDULLAH
    24 1 A.P. BAGHDAD, Mon. KinAbdullah of Hashemite Jordan arrived here today afU an official visit to Teherar The King left later for Amito. A.P.
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    HAREWOOD WEDS NEXT MONTH
    192 1 A.P. LONDON. Mon.—The Earl of Harewood and his Austrian born commoner fiancee will be married on September 29 in the Chapel Royal of historic St. James Palace, it was reported today. The British Press Association said it had learned from an unimpeachable source that the wedding
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    VAMPIRE HAIGH DIES TOMORROW
    169 1 A.P. LONDON, Monday. Home Secretary Chuter Ede ruled today that John George Haigh. confessed i killer of nine persons, must hang on Wednesday in I accordance with the death sentence passed on him at the Assizes. Haigh was convicted on July 19 of the murder of
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    JEWS PREPARE
    47 1 A.P. TEL AVIV, Mon.—lsraeli men up to the age of 49 may be called up if a war should start again under a new Israeli Army Bill. Under the Bill, young men will have to do two years mililary service and young women one.— AJ?.
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    City Workers To Get $3 Million This Month
    293 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) SOMETIME this month the Singapore Municipal Commission will pay out nearly $3,600,000 to its junior, intermediate and senior officers. This sum represents 18 months' arrears of salaries and allowances from January 1, 1948 under the revised salaries scheme Last
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    U.S. LEADERS LEAVE
    31 1 Reuter. VIL'NNA, Mon. me tnree Vmeucan chiefs cf Staff left ;ere tonight by air foi Wash- ngton after their Week's talks p Atlantic defences with vVsUm nations. —Reuter.
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    Europe's Defence Is 'Soft'
    171 1 U.P. WASHINGTON. Mon Secretary of State Dean Ach?son- said todjy that th? United State* is "open to attack" as never before becaus? Western Europe's defence Is a "soft shell" inviting Soviet aggression. Therefore. Acheron told the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees. Confess should approve
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    CHINA PILOTS RELEASED
    62 1 OSLO, Mon.- The Norwegian Government has protested to the Chinese Government against the arrest of two Norwegian pilots in Chinese waters, the Foreign Ministry anounced here today. The pilots were later released. The Foreign Ministry said they had refused to accept the Chinese Government's blockade of certain
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    SEAMEN DEMAND BUREAU CHANGE, ALLEGE GRAFT
    254 2 THE Indo-Malay-Pakistan Seamen's Union, Singa- pore, is demanding a reshuffle in the personnel of the Seamen's Registration Bureau, including th? Deputy Registrar of Seamen. The seamen allege that the Bureau "has not been able to prevent graft and corruption" in matters dealing with supply
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    ST. ANDREW'S BOYS ACT HENRY V
    22 2 A scene from Shakespeare'King Henry V' as rendered by th:- children of St. Joseph's Institution recently.
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    City Markets: A New Scheme
    206 2 The Municipal Special Markets Committee will not decide on any special policy on private markets, until the results of an experimental scheme at Seng Poh and Balestier Roads have been studied. The ground floots of cctain Tiust house, at Seng Poh Roar!, accoidiag to the
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    Hi's Flying Back To Trinidad
    160 2 A YOUNG Chinese businessman, who came from Trinidad to Lingnan University ana then to Singapore, Is to fly back to Port of Spain. Trinidad, to see his sick mother. He is Mr. Lee Sui Lun. manager of a contractor's business. He hopes to be in
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    BOARD MEETING
    26 2 The monthly meeting of the Rural Board will be held on Thursday. August 18, in the Council Chamber, Colonial Secretary's Office, at 10 a.m.
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    33 Squadron Arrives In S'pore
    59 2 No. :;3 Squadron of the Royal Ait Force has arrived in Singapore aboard Uie airC! aft-cai rier Ocean. The ship has berthed at the Naval Seletar. This squadron will replace N0.28 Squadron which left Malaya lor Hongkong last May." N0.33 Squadron is commanded by Squadron
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    CONCERT OFF, PIANIST HAS 'FLU
    108 2 BrittaD Council officials were yesterday trying desperately to contact more than 1:00 people who had made advance hoc lungs for a piano recital In the British Council Hall to-night. Because she has 'tiu. Mrs. Mary Richardson has had to stay in bed. and cannot play
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    C-G drops in to say good-bye to Mr. Reed
    147 2 MR. Malcolm Mac Donald, the Commissioner-Gene-ral. called on Mr. George Reed, Southeast Asia's Special Commissioner for the International Trans-port-workers' Federation, at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday to say "hello and good-bye" on the eve of Mr. Reed's departure for the United
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    ONE KILLED IN CRASH
    53 2 A tar driven by a European crashed into a concrete bridge at 14 1 mile stone Woodlands Road at about two o'clock yesterday morning. All the four persons including the driver were injured and were taken to hospital. One died later while the other three are
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    U.K., COMMONWEALTH CITIZENSHIP CLARIFIED
    649 2 Special Provision For The Federation THE conditions governing the "British subject anil Commonwealth citizenship" were announced in a Government press release here last nighf. It was pointed out that while Singapore is a Colony, the Federation of Malaya is a Protectorate. Birth in the Federation ot
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    Children Can Take Books Home
    95 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. --Children can now take books fetfMed to them by the Education Department home to stUJgy, said Mr. F. C. Barraeloug'n. Senior Inspector of Schools, Selangor. M.. Bairaclcugh was tenlyin r e to an najournment speech by Inche Mohidin bin Mohammed Rasbid in
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    Tribute For Sir Sydney
    137 2 The Mentri Besar S« langor. Raja Uda bin Raja Mohammed, paid a tribul. ;n the Selangor State Council to Sir Sydney Palmer this bum Ho said, "On behalf of mv official colleague.- in this Council and of myself. I mUk to assoc'ate myself with the remarks
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    Land of butter, has no tinned butter
    207 2 AUSTRALIA exports butter to Singapore and the rest of the world, but in Australia you cannot get tinned butter. Australians can only buy a little fresh butter. Australia today is sending Malaya more frozen food than any country in the world. "This is
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      77 2 J ~J^.tbSeason Opens Tomorrow Please Book Early. IT IS WITH PKIDK WE PRESKM "QUAKTET" by Somerset Maugham Ls superior. The stories have much to commend them, tor ai have been directed and acted with skill, and oner a mixture of human interest, pathos, adventure, comedy and wit. She sort that
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      411 2 BLUE NETWORK Faith His Orchestra; 10.30 siani songs: 6.20 Tamil songs: i i pnnrtttMWTH Dance music by The Californians 6.30 Time SiKnal News; 6.40 ENGLISH PROGRAMMES g Hubart Rostang Sextette; Recorded ra«Blc. 10.00 a.m. News from Kuala 11.00 (lose Down. 6.45 p.m. World Affair*: 6.55 Lumpur; 10.05 (approv.) Close «»iav
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    Troops Show Speed, Initiative
    351 3 11 it action against- banin th* vicinity of S>hy the l 10th Gurkha news the necessity lof movement and l the part of tioops n such op*. .ition.s. official ic.x;rt. telh; of jsfui encoantet by a section of No. 11 Platoon I v/heiein these two factors
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    Medal For Corporal
    119 3 The London (iaw-tte arm. imces the award of the Military Jf*»dai to Corpora! Harkukumar .'ta:, 'i J Gurkha Rifles cor gallantry in action against ha.tdfts. e» May 34, f>l. I*arUaknmar Ral fWis ebm*ritnndinx i»attv of 8 own, 'Mrovttng t%o vn»hvĕW»* on operation* near Mer.chis. The vehicles Were
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    THREE SLASHED TO DEATH
    38 3 KI'ALA UWtPUR, Mon. Four persons entered a Chinese tailor's shop in toe MenMHCata aree en August night and slashed to death with a parang and an axe the proprietor, his wife and a ca;pdnter.
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    Estate Houses Destroyed
    77 3 SEQAIiAT, Mom.—A iarj-e sran*, of bSrhdßj, inoUrthag- Tamris and Malays, raided a laboarets' hne on Rahru Division of. Tangkak Estate -at -the ."Wtod mile Miw: Sepnm Road, at 9 p.m. yesterday. Th<» bandits hvided all the labourers oat c* -che;!' quarters and biii iuid tiovuri-t»e enter-. Irneioi
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    VARIETY CONCERT
    28 3 lias*' Wotkshop personnel of tiie Fioyal Electrical and Alcchruiical Engineers Regiment gave a' variety concert test night at the theatre in Rowcroft Lines, Aver Rajah Road.
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    Monday Wedding
    93 3 v-r ami Mrs. fihema* Harrington Hooper after their W\ ddrng at St. Andrew's C'atfa drai yesterday Str. Harrington Hooper i> a ship's oftionr of the Straits S twain shh> Co. Ltd., emd> Mrs. Harrington Hooper, for.nterty Mis»<. Hteze) Jtoan Hicwes, is a sister at the n• a< Hospital,
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    Marriage Poser In High Court
    203 3 DRIOR to the passing of the Civil Marriage Ordinance a Jew was incapacitated by the law of this Colony from contracting any. form of naarriage other than the Jewish form of religious marriage. This submission was made m the Singapore High Court yesterday by Mr.
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    BANDITS LOSE ONE OF THEIR LARGEST CAMPS
    562 3 gurkhm Vnoover red aM. DEEP IN JUNGLE i' Uwt i jv > (From Our Own Staff Correspondent! vi >1 i. j i W.VF-* Monday. "i ;>mpniiy if the l»t Gurkha Rifles feoatad yesterday the headquarters of int fearwlit 5th Troop, Nortu .fohore Brigade.
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    COUNCIL MEETING
    22 3 The next Singapore Legislative Council Meeting will be held on Tuesday. August 23. at 10 a.m. at the Municipal Chamber.
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    New Books At Raffles Library
    220 3 The following now book? ar. being- added to Raffles Lihrarv: Instead of Arms. Folko Bernadotte; Insures, Anthony Bertram (ed: Barbara Bodirhon (1827--1891). Hester Burton; SpadeWork. Grace Carlton; Engl sh Constitutional History, S. B. Chrimes: Practical Mod*rn Malay. O. T. Dussek: Ballet Vignettes, Arnold L. Haskell:
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    SHIP OWNERS SUED
    149 3 The Strait! Steamship Co.. Qti claim* d R sum Of $">O.--r>7o.«i In the High Court yesterday fjrorn the ovners df the S. S. Empire Hamble and the master of the vessel for provisions and stores supplied and set vices rendered up to October 1948. Tiie Straits Steamship
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    Royal Coat Of Arms in Court
    147 3 A tentative charge was yesterday preferred a:vun<t Scow Pick Tiow. 36. alleged to hftve in hi-- possession two counterfeit blocks of the Royal Coat of Aims intended to be used fi audulentlv. At the preliminary inquiry held before tne Fourth Police Magistrate. Mr. M.
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    Radio Malaya: Chamber will appealto Govt
    286 3 South Indian Chamber of Commerce will carry its fight with Radio Malaya for bnt Indian programmes direct to '.he Singapore Government. Th" Chamber is not satisfied with the reply of the Director of Broadcasting to certain representations made recently. The president of the South
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    'DUTCH' WAS CHANCED TO 'BRITISH'
    86 3 Abdul Wahab bin Abdul Abbas yesterday claimed trial in the Second District Court on a charge of altering "Dutch Subject to "British Subject" in his idehtity card. He explained that when he went to Indonesia, he was arrested by the Indonesian military officials who made
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    PICKPOCKET
    39 3 Chan Chee Cheing, 20, a man with five previous convictions, will spend the next six months in gaol for picking a fountain pen from the pocket of Mr. Mohd. Ali Kader bin Gulam Mohd Sahib in an omnibus.
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    FREE CINEMA
    51 3 A fiee cinema show will be given at the Strait; Chinese MYF Social Hall on August 2U at 7.'M p.m. Mr. Lan Moirison. of the N uion il Bible Society, will screen the film, "Tne Book for the World of Tomorrow", which deal- with the history of the
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    Commandos Pass Through Singapore
    45 3 Some of the 2,200 British Confttianaos who were in >ii.gapore yesterday a route to Hongkong. They arrived on the troopship Georgie from Malta and are under the command of Brigadier n Hardy. They belong to th. Third Royal Marine Commando Group.
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    LOTUS CLUB NETS CASH FOR VARSITY
    490 4 Sun, Air And Sea Help GaWa Succeed (These exclusive Tribune Pictures show you how they did it) WHEN women net I heir minds to anything, they very often do It much tetter than men. Singapore's Lotus hib. an organisation of the Colony's. Indian and
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    Let Me Try That
    51 5 i hcts, Chimp star in Hollywood, never had it so good. He jasl leafs in the sun with Pat Hall, the latest jungle oneefl sf nuns, sad rubs sun tan oil on her before going on Pat's expression indicates that Cheta really knows liat he.; doing,
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    Policemen Arrested 30 Men In A Hurry
    199 5 And Released Them Quickly A.P. MANILA, Monday.— 1 SQUAD of policemen hurriedly arrested 30 men yesterday who were tearing down walls of the historic Fori Santiago, which served as headquarters for the Japanese Kempeitai during the war. They were charged with demolishing Government
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    NEW INSTRUMENT
    49 5 A.P. N YORK, ?ion. A leetronlc instrument which guides a machine tool metal parts accoid.ng to drawing is now on tho ma kct, Amencan Machrau. r. trade publication reports. device, known as a following system/ production of irreshsped metal parts, ajw ss cams," saya the magazine.- A.P.
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    Cockroaches Can Smell Colours
    170 5 A.P. T J'Hl' ADRLPjHIA, Mon. la!, nlverstty scienproved to a distia* Cv ?h,,rin K th '•aeh can sme'J pariicularJy black. they think humans r,',- »> '«rsje mm p. an aluirunium 'hoard and koto* om? 'ter MBes and ,h, 1 started pah afn«t th<,l through *ud«'»thin <
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    Unexpected Baby
    124 5 Reuter-AAP. SYDInE'.' Mon. A 42--yeai oid Sydney woman said that she gave birth to her eleventh baby recently without knowing, until two minutes before. that ohe was pregnant. Tne weman said that a fortnight before the birth she went to a doctor because me cf her legs was
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    Farmer Watkins' Sheep Stays In Town
    228 5 LONDON, Monday. Because of a deadlock between Blaenavon Council and mountain farmers, a sheep has been penned in the local pound for the past five months. His bleating can be heard in the main streets, for the pound adjoins busy Lion Square. The trouble
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    BRIDGE GROWS 18"
    39 5 Heat SO expanded the ironwork of Sanwich Toll Biidge during the repent abnormally hot weather that. a*te- In rig opened to let a ship through, the bridge would not Swßtg shut again y l i inches
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    AN INSULT TO THE NEGRO PEOPLE
    228 5 Civil Rights Congress Nomination Of Negro Judge Tom Clark A.P. NEW YORK, Monday.— 'pHE Civil Rights Congress termed the nomination of Attoniey General Tom C. Clark as an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court "a gratuitous insult thrown into the faces of
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    KILL TWO TIGERS WITH SPEARS, PICK-AXE
    128 5 Reuter. JUBBULPORE (Central Provinces), India, Mon. Armed with their traditional spears and pick-axe, a Gond I aboriginal) couple killed two cattle-lifting tigers near here. One afternoon, the Gond found a prowling tigress in his cattleshcd ready to pounce on the terror-stricken cattle. The Gond
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    TEACHING NOVICES TO CLIMB
    106 5 Reuter. LONDON, Mon.- Speciallyequipped mountaineering schools are planned here so that there will be fewer accidents among novice chmbers. The Mountaineering Association is seeking £25.000 sterling for the same. Three 14-day courses foi Britain are planned. They are: a bcginnei's course, an intci mediate course covering
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    BOY FOR ESTHER
    29 5 U.P. 3 ANT A MONICA, Cahfornai, Mon. A blonde, curlyiiaired bey was born early yesterday to Esther Williams, the swimming film star, at Santa Monica Hospital.—U.F*.
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    Prepared
    21 5 Whenever it begins to rain, actress Marie Wilson, in Hollywood, is well prepared with her plastic raincoat and fabric umbrella.
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    CARE FOR LEPER
    28 5 Parishioners of Christ Church, Streatham. S.W.. nave "adopted" Mgßopr Okafor. a five-year-old girl m a Nigerian leper colony. and are paying expenses for aer treatment.
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    Teaching Workers Classics
    151 5 LONDON. Mon. Thirtysix weavers. miners, saleswomen, engineers and raiployees in chocolate, printing and ether factories from au over Britain are at present at Rugby on a fortnight's course fc: ycung wottkavs. In th-. aajectioa of app'icants, picfeivnco w.t; OtvcQ to thOSC who left SChopl before the age
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    STEALING TYPEWRITERS IS THE NEW RAGE
    121 5 A.P. BANGKOK, Mon.—Stealing typewriters bas become the recent rage in Hangk ;k. The CID reports that more than 1,000 have dlsap|K>ared recently and, what's mure, tyi>ewriter shops are becoming afraid to buy the stolen machines from thieves. Too hot. So the loot is being
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    FARMER GILL GETS A BOTTLE OF WINE
    99 5 RICHMOND (Yorkshire i. Mon. The old town custom of presenting a bottle of wine to the farmer taking the first bag of newly-won corn into Richmond (Yorkshire) market was observed on 30th July. The farmer was Mr. G. B. Gill, of Alierthorpc Hall.
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    LOST PRIZE
    53 5 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE, M:n. A radio "Quiz" team composed of Melbourne footballers misaed j. £A 1,060 goal recently when a substitute for a regular player failed to answer correctly a final question. The substitute—brother-in-law of one of the footballing Quiz contestants—said England, not Ireland, was the birthplace of Mr.
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    State Lotteries Would Be Boring
    295 5 Home Office Chief Tells Commission LONDON. Monday. IF the btal: ran latteries, peopl3 would gel bored with them in the end. So said Sir Frank Newsam to the Royal Commission on Betting. Sir Frank, £3.500 a Secretary at the Horn a would know that such
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    ELEPHANTINE
    52 5 A.P. ROME. Mon. -Rome Zoo's baby elephant, who now weighs 63 stone 9 lbs. polished off for her birthday feast 12 quarts of milk, six pounds of cooked rice, 15 lbs. of fresh fruit, nine lbs. Off tomatoes, four pounds of carrots, four pounds of beete and a cake
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    One Country, One People, One Government
    530 6 QUOTE from a statement by Mr. Budh Singh. President of the Malayan Indian Congress, on August 7, 1949: The Malayan Indian Cong><»*» has consistently striven for a united Malaya inclusive of Singapore. The existing constitutions, by their very undemocratic nature, are bound to en-ate
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    BRITAIN'S MIDDLE CLASSES DECLINE TO FALL
    1224 6  -  A writer once compared the British middle class to a mule. They both have neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. But, maintain two British authors, England will somehow remain a middle class nation. Ivy MURIEL PENN Reuter. LONDON THE Middle Classes, that
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    AMERICAN NEWSLETTER
    726 6 THE attention of the Americans has been fixed on the hearings being held by k combined Senate Committee (composed of the Foreign Re. lations and Armed Service.! Committees) and by the Committee on Foreign Affairs the House of Representatives. The topic under consideration was a proposal to establish
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    STARS TURN RED
    931 6  -  by H. BLAKESLEE A.P. ASTRONOMY is the second Russian science to adopt political restrictions for its studies. This was shown in resolutions adopted at a recent meeting of astronomers in Leningrad. The first Russian science to acceot political limitations was eenetics, the study of heredity. In genetics
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    AUSTRALIA ADVANCES
    154 6 Reuter. BOMBAY: Australia has advanced "anything from 15 to 50 years" in the field of industrial development during six years of World War 11, according to Mr. S. D. Shubart, Senior Australian Trade Commissioner in India. Mr. Shubart told Bombay Rotarians that over 1.672 industrial enterprises have been
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    11l I'll MILLET
    375 7 IDLE WOMEN ARE INTENSELY IRRITATING WOMAN'S PAGE i-, »MEN make a mess of their lives because they conn stantly expend $10 worth of energy on a 10-cent probDr. Walter C. Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic. I true, of courso, of the woman who hasn't quite »h to
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    LIFE BEGINS ANEW
    270 7 THE attitude of many '.-.He-aged women is exd by these familar T ye Uved my life, so sit y and watch my children live theirs.'" When a woman begins to 00 more interest than n the rich years ahead, hould give her defeatist attitude a good going
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    Blueprint for.. Beauty in the Sun
    277 7 WHEN the sun turns on Its heat, you reach instinctively for your sunburn preventive. Previous painful sessions with cooked skins are sufficient reminders to most people to take it easy and to take the extra precaution of protecting the akin while it is being
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    Hold Bach Those Helpful Suggestions Until You're Asked
    200 7 ONE of the most difficult exercises in self-discipline for a new grandmother is to avoid offering free advice on baby care to the young mother. It is a natural impulse, writes a beloved grandmother of eight young giandchildren. for a woman who
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    BEAUTY WITH BUMPS
    210 7 THE gill who dreads to look in the mirror every morning for fear that she'l! be greeted by a skin blemish can solve that plaguing pioblem. Sho can provide herself with a medicated make-up to use for just such an emergency. Buck a mako-up, which is available
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    FUSSY FRIENDSHIPS
    109 7 ARE you one of those women who counts no one as a "friend" unless that person is completely sympathetic to you? There are many women like that. The trouble with ih in seems to be tliat they have very few friends. Of course when a vnoiiuui demands complete
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    HINT
    53 7 CAMILLE Renault, a Frenchman weighing 360 lbs believes in mixing the arts of painting and cooking. The walls of his restaurant are hung with paintings by famous artists and he names his house specialities after works of art. For instance, "Well of love seen by Watteau" is a pastry
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    Around The Town
    518 7  -  By Vera Ardmore WANDERING into the American Club Saturday afternoon, I suddenly found myself in the middle of a film unit. Cameras whirring and Mr. J. Applestone, the newly arrived M-G-M manager with dozens of entranced children and their parents watching the wild antics of colour cartoons.
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    RED DANGER STRIKES MOST AT F.E. COUNTRIES
    478 8 Urgent Call For Pacific Pact By Rhee, Chiang U.P. ClilNHAfc, KOREA, Monday.— fENERALJSSIMO Chiang Kai-shek and Korean today caUed upon Philippine President Elipidio Quinno to take *teps to form a Pacific pact as a bulwark against "internatjonal m Ch At the conclusion of
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    MANILA'S 2ND BIG FIRE
    68 8 Reuter. MANILA, Mon. Another $500,000 fire, this time in the Southern Philippines town of Capiz, was reported today to have destroyed considerable government" and private property. The blaze, which broke out so suddenly that it gave the victims virtually no time to save any of their
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    'They Must Think For Themselves'
    147 8 U.P. CANTON. Mon.—Gen. Chen Cheng. Governor of For mosa and Southeast Com-mander-in-Chief said yesterday that the State Department 1 White Paper on China might end the "colonial thinking here and lead the Chinese to thinu foi tnemselves. Chen, in one of tne Hi statements by
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    WILL TAKE A GENERATION
    136 8 A.P. SHANGHAI. Mon. THE handful of foreigners in this Communist city who have heaid about the r. S. white paper on China described it yesterday as a final removal of the Nationalists as a hope for free China. Shanghai foreigners who were aware of the white
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    THE CHASE
    74 8 Reuter. RAJKOT (Western India), Mon. -A lioness from the Gir Forest —the abode of Indian lions in Western India—recently fell into a disused well here while chasing a cow and was shot by the villagers nearby. On hearing the lioness roaring inside the well, a huge crowd collected
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    'The House In China Is On Fire'—Koo
    262 8 U.P. WASHINGTON, Monday.— AMBASSADOR V. K. Wellington Koo yesterday A sa id the Chinese Nationalist Government drafting a reply to the State Department s bluntlywwtedf "White Paper" which blamed Nationalist corruption and blundering for the communist victory in China. Koo in a statement
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    FORGOTTEN DIGGER HARDY
    113 8 SYDNEY. Men.— The award of a posthumous Vie- I toria Cross or George Cross is being sought for an Aus- j tralian soldier whose resource and courage stemmed a mutiny of Japanese prisoners in 1944. Representations have been made to official quarters for recognition of the courage
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    YOUTH CAUGHT PENNING THREAT
    175 8 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO. Mon. —The usual number of cranks are taking advantage of the tension caused by the Shimoyama death, the Mitaka runaway train case which caused the death of six Japanese, and the general labour unrest to plague the authorities. The latest was a 20-year-old youth
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    Romulo To Meet Laurel
    164 8 A.P. MANILA, Mon.—Efforts to gain bipartisan support of President Elpidio Quirino' s Pacific Union project were pressed today by Ambassador Carlos P. Rcmulo. There were indications that the plan, which has received scant attention from Washington in the past, was now of trmclv interest there. Romulo
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    CONDITION: SERIOUS
    45 8 A.P. MANILA. Mon. --Governor Fortunato F. Hali! of Dulacan, millidnaue transportation magnate, is in a serious conditions in a Manila hospital following a stroke at noon yesterday. He was stricken shortly after a speed boat ride on Manila Bay with his two sons.—A.P.
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    PEACE PACT
    43 8 Reuter. TEHERAN. Mon. ivisia and the Kingdom of Jordan announced in a communique i- i here today that they had agreed to co operate on international problems. to safeguard peace a.id freedom on the baris of the United Nations Chaiter. Reutcr.
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    Lt.-Gen. Dorgier told them to 'dress up'
    251 8 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO, Monday AN officer of the Imperial headquarters Army stall, who in August 1945 carried to the Kwangtung Army an order from Emperor Hirohito to lay down arms, returned to Japan from Siberia aboard the repatriation vessel "Shinano Maru" vosterdav. The Imperial
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    S'HAI BRITONS MADE TO PAY HEAVY TAXES
    273 8 U.P. HONGKONG, Monday.— DRITISH businessmen still operating in Communist Cljina fe*r that the Communists pre trying to t?x them out of existence, according to privptr report from London. They believe heavy I imposed in North China will be repeated on larger scale in
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    P.I. TO HAVE CONSULATE IN JOGA
    153 8 Reuter. MANILA, Mon. Be< Indonesia is con the Philippine Republi a vital link in the propose'! antiCommunist Pacific Union President Quirino has decided to establish a consulate at Jogjakarta, capital cf the Indonesian Republic. Official circles point out that Indonesia is interested in such
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    No Backing For Mexico
    108 8 Reuter. HAVANA, Mon. Representatives of American States meeting here have refused to back a Mexican claim to Britain's Central American Colony of Honduras. Mexico, as a result, has withdrawn her representative from the meeting which was a session of the Inter-Ameri-can Commission on Dependent Territories set
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    EUROPE LOOKS THRIVING
    102 9 r.\ lark.- Beach WASHINGTON, Mon. iAN v vmericans who have M ma* Quick tours of Eu"V thia summer say they EST. ,e< why there is any Snc- for Marshall Plan aid. 1 fl cities look prosperous ormal, they said. And {JVy are right. This reporter juS returned
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    JAP FISH FOR STERLING AREA
    55 9 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO, Mon. Fifteen i asea of cannea sarand 5.000 cases of Canute are scheduled to to the Sterling Aica from Hiroshima. Nippon JunseJ Foodompany in Hiroshima begun shipment of the bomto. it claims an annual production capacity ol 120.000 cases of tinned marine products
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    RICE PLAN
    66 9 A.P. WASHINGTON, Mon. that an acute world shortage of rice will continue ■fell iiuo the next decade, the Caribbean Commission says that the British are seeking to expand their production iri Biitish t;uiana. The Commission's report, prepared by the United Kingdom Primary Products Committee, said British Guiana eady
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    Paper, Cotton Ban On H.K. Wharves
    193 9 HONGKONG, Monday.—The storage capacity of the colony's wharves and godowns are so heavily taxed at present that the Port Executive Committeen is ordering certain goods removed to dumps or otherwise disposed of. Much of the storage accommodation is occupied by goods originally destined for
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    TINS BRISK WHILE LONDON SOUGHT HED GES
    798 9 SHARE MARKET IN JULY (By A Market Correspondent JULY opened briskly for tin shares. By the second week when London came in as a buyer there was a sharp increase in turnover with most counters showing gains of from 10 to 20 per
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    COCA COLA— $17 M PROFIT
    46 9 A.P. NEW YORK, Mon. The Coca Cola Company has re- l ported first halt earnings of U5516,9r.6,2,'i4, equal to US$4.- 12 a common share. This f compares with U5515,285,788 or U553.72 a share in the first half of last year.—A.P. j
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    KUCHAI TIN
    21 9 Anglo-Oriental (Malaya) Ltd. announce that the production of tin-ore by Kuchai Tin Ltd. for July, 1949, totalled 220 piculs.
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    GERMAN PACT
    66 9 A.P. VIENEA, Mon. A new I trade agreement between Austria and the combined l Western Zones of Germany j was conculded here during i the weekend. j Valid for one year, from j Aug. 15, the agreement pro- vides for the export of Ger- j man coal, machinery,
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    JULY PRICES
    80 9 Opening July 16 July 23 July 29 Bangrhu 14/6 16/3 16 9 17/ Tronohs 16/6 20/6 21/6 22/3 Petalings 7.60 8.80 8.40 8.65 Aust. Amal. 8/- 9/9 9/-cd H/licd Pungahs 12/6 12 9 14/3 14/9 INDUSTRIALS Cunir.t* Highest Lowest Clos;ng Fraaer N'eave 3.35 3.35 3.32 i 3.35 Malayan
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    NEW PACKING
    82 9 A special material is being manufactured in Australia for packaging of perishable exports. It is known in the trade as "Jutex", and is made of crepe-Kraft paper bonded with plastic bitumen, to hessian. The paper and the hessian are wrapped in one combination, with the additional plastic bitumen
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    Dull But Steady
    19 9 Singapore Mon. Very dull condition!* prevailed today In the local share market. But are extremely steady.
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    KUNDAGN TIN— £3725 PROFIT
    203 9 If UNDANG Tin Dredging Ltd. have announced a profit of £3,725 for the year ending December 31, 1948. This was derived mainly from the treatment of amang dumps and the tribute derived from the working of marginal areas. Of this a sum of £600 has been
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    RUBBER MARKET
    65 9 THOUGH there were no advices from London and New York, the market ruled extremely steady and sellers were reserved. The market olosed 14 cent higher than Saturday. Closing prices were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 Aug. RSS 33 tt 33 No. 2 Aug. RSS 31% 32 No. 3 Aug.
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    AIR MAIL
    102 9 Latest time for airmails to Aden, Afghanistan, Alaska, Europe, Africa, South America, Persia, West Indies, Canada, Egypt, Eire, Abysinia. United Kingdom, Iceland, India, Madagascar, Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, U.S.S.R., U.S.A. Pacific Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Burma, Thailand, Indochina, and Ceylon wili lie 6.00 p.m. today. Airmail posting for Federation
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    SEA MAIL
    30 9 Surface iiiai'.s are expected today from the Federation, Sibu and Jay». Surface mail for Burma, India, Pakistan Kuingehow, North Borneo, Labuan, Brunei and Miri will close t ...ay.
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    22 9 The produce markets had a quiet day yesterday with little business reported. Pepper maintained its high levels reached last weekend.
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    NEI TRADE CALL
    36 9 An editorial in the "Sydney Dally Telegiaph" urges that the Australian dockworkers might now consider the resumption of friendly relations with the Netherlands, now that cease tire orders have been issued in Indonesia.
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    795 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. iviv.i.. beuers. atlas Ice 15.50 16.hU I Alex. Biiik Pref. 2.45 2.55 I Ords. 2.10 2.20 8.8. Petrol 36/9 37/9 B.M. Trustee 7.00 8.00 Uons. 'lin Ord. 13/- 14/--dO. (P) 21/- 23/- E. Utd. Assur. 40.75 11.75 Estate Trust 7.00 8.00 Federal Dispensary 6.70 7.00
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    WOODCOCK 'SERIOUS' ABOUT OUITTING
    367 10 Mills Ready To Step In Reuter-AAP. DONCASTER, Monday. REPRESSED by a run of bad luck Bruce WoodU cock, British heavyweight champion, may retire from boxing without furftlling his ambition of meeting the American, Lee Savold, for the British version of the world championship next month. "I
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    A section of the }\ t row d «>i spectators, | MM) nHMMi outside thp y pa.Hion in the Jalan : iiesar Stadium alter the j i»mich MMe9 Sinjfa;>i)r • ■Ml the Armf Na\> la*.t j Saturday. A cordon of , civilian and urititury i police Ui-pt a wotrhtul ; e\e mi them. The crowd did not dispersed until ( lute utter the game, j There were no incident*. — r.iiau.r Picture. (
    64 10 A section of the t row d «>i spectators, MM) nHMMi outside thp y pa.Hion in the Jalan iiesar Stadium alter the j i»mich MMe9 Sinjfa;>i)r ■Ml the Armf Na\> la*.t j Saturday. A cordon of civilian and urititury i police Ui-pt a wotrhtul e\e mi them. The crowd did
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    Mulloy Snatches Title From Larsen
    116 10 U.P. SOUTH OKANGE, New Jersey, Monday. STOUT-HEARTED Gardnar Mulloy of Miami came from behind to defeat Art Larsen of San Francisco 5-7, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 and 6-2 today and gained the coveted Eastern Grass Court tennis title. Mulloy, who pained the finals by dumping top-secih
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    FLORENCE B.P. BEAT NEWTONS
    115 10 Florence B.P. beat Newton B.P. last Saturday at the Victoria School's Hall. Results (Florence B.P. players mentioned first): Singles: Seah Peng Hock beat Teo Tong Watt 15-8, 5-15. 18-17. Ng Keng Chiang beat Tse Kwanr Had 15-6. 15-12. Koh Buck Chye beat Han Kok Tons 15-12,
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    HOLLAND BEATEN
    21 10 NOORDWYK, Mon.—Bririn gained a 13-5 victory .v: uol'cnd yesterday in the ..■..--British tennis tournament hold lie re this weekend.
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    Koleh Races At Lotus Club Gala
    139 10 Among the attractions it the Jxnus Club's Gala tn aid of the University of Malaya Fund held at the South Winds Hotel, yeslerday, were boat races for Malay kolehs. Results are as follow*: RACE NO. L: L Bung i Kaunaga Guided by Daud. Owner
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    JOLLILADS WIN AGAIN
    40 10 Jollilads beat the Changi Civilian Combined XI 1-0 at soccer mutch at Geylang Stadium, on Saturday. The winning goal crime through the rignt wing Ahmat off a pass by Hus in. Sao: tly after the half time.
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    MUNICIPAL BEAT S.T.C. AT T-TENNIS
    105 10 Singapore Municipal Services Union defeated S.T.C. SpunClub by four games to three a! table-tennis last Satuidav. Scores: (S.M.S.U. players names mentioned first): SIN«r.KS:—Leow Cher Youm. (Captain) (22-21-21) beat Chiang Kong Peng (20-16-18); Chan Mini Chock (16-22-21-21) beat Foo Kia Song (21-20-13-17); Loe Meng Kong (19-21-21-*]
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    JOHORE PARTY TO PLAY SETIA B.P.
    88 10 Badminton will be played r.n Friday at 7.00 p.m. between the Setia B.P. of Johore, at the Setia B.P. and Ayer Molek ot Johore. at the latter's court No. 6 Carpmael Road, off Onan Road. Road, off Onan Road. Following have been selected to
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    Coal Strike Affects Swimmers
    114 10 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE, lion.—Tho Australian nationwide coal strike affected Victorian «winimin<; stars in their training for the Empire Games to be held in Auckland. New Zealand, next year. During the early winter months the swimmers trained daily in "warm water" at Melbourne baths, but heated water was
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    PADDLING ALONG
    33 10 RUBBER would come in handy in the Amateur Alhletic Vssoeiatlon's seven-mite walking championship at London's White City Stadium. The race was won by defending champion H. G. Churcher of Belgrave Harriers.
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    S.B.A. TIES FOR THE WEEK-END
    427 10 The following ties of S.B.A. Junior Championships will b? played off this week-end: SAT I'KB AY 2.15 p.m.: Lim Hong Sev (Mayflower) vs. Teo Boon En^ r (Useful): Lim Keng Hor (Diehard) vs. Choc Fook Cheong (AAU): Wong Yeok Yeok (AAU) vs. Lim Kirn Peow
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    CHAMPION OF SCHOOLS
    44 10 TOP: TAN SOO LTAT (A.C.S.) who took the big* jump event at the Inter-Seh.wd Short* ;:t Jalan hi xar Saturday with a height of 5 ft. 7 ins. Left: imi'.HPi (Victoria Schooh- winrwr of tWo < vents—th is and 220 yards.—Tribune Picture-..
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    INDIAN CASUALS SOCCER TEAMS
    98 10 The Indian Casuals will play two soccer matches this- week. They will moot Young Companions Athletic Asso tation tomorrow and Tiong Bahni Ranger* on Thursday. Both games will be played at Farrer Park at 5.15 p.m. The teams will be selected from the following: K. Narayana,
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    HARRIS WINS
    24 10 A.P. COPENHAGEN, Mon.—Reginald Harris, British professional cyclist, yesterday won the Danish Grand Prix for professionals on Copenhagen's "Ordrup" ovel before 11.000 spectators.—A.P.
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    Aboriginal Boxers will soon rule Australian ring
    426 10 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE, Mon.— Of the eight Australian professional b ox i n g championships officially recognised, boxers with aboriginal blood hold four and are strong contenders for two other titles. Boxing judges said the full foi co of the advance of ahoiiginal box*
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    FIRST AMERICAN HORSE TO RACE HERE SINCE THE WAR
    630 10 By AIXAN LKWis CON MORSILLO, well known to Malayan racegoers, passed through Singapore recently. With Mortiilkt was Jimmy ReilU, well-known trainer in India. It was thought that Con was on his way to England, bat since he was with Reilly I
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    Adjust Your Game To Fit The Course
    488 11 HOW TO PLAY GOLF Hcgatt No. 11 ME sty to adjust, to 1 op and solve unex- tatiOQa us one of the t f low scoring in golf. irses.were laid out t and mathematical of a baseball diamond the problem of mas- the
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    2 Records Broken In M.H.S. Sports
    98 11 -MALACCA, Mon. Two refolds were broken on Satur•y M th. first post-war atnlctic meeting of the Malacca Hij,'h School. A kngt crowd, including we Her. Mt. W. C. Taylor. Rcsldeat ComBUSBloner, was present. Ah bin Mohamed broke the WJJ one mile recoid. Max threw
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    TENNIS STARS HAVE A DATE WITH A KING
    50 11 A.P. Mon -Four ten--3 A saionala flew to rterday to dedC' their skill to anKioc Si 1 of the Same, Jt Sweden aid Ame fican s Donand Jack Kramer, E^-r:::- Dl p lny PaUs and wii Pa ncho Segura W for years,—A.P,
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    New Zealanders Get Early Shock
    372 11 Reuter. NOTTINGHAM, Monday. UAYING declared 90 minutes before lunch after only half an hour's batting this morning Nottinghamshire, with 323 runs on the board for the loss of four wickets spent the rest of the day in the field while New Zealand ran up 329
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    TITLE CLAIM
    34 11 LONDON, Mon. Eddie Miller of Australia is to claim the British championship if he beats Bonnie Clayton, the British and Empire featherweight champion, in their Empire title fight at Liverpool on Thursday.
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    Well Done, Army-Navy —Says SAFA
    85 11 The referee's report ol the Malaya Cup yam*between the Army-Navy and Singapore last Sunday will be refer red to the Discipljnary Heard under the chairmanship of Mr. T. W. Ong. This was decided upon at the council meeting of the Singapore Amateur FootbaM Association held
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    ADAMS WINS DUTCH OPEN
    45 11 A.P. THE HAGUE. James Adams ol Britain won the Dutch Open International Goif Championship here on Monday with a score of 294. Botl. second and third places went to Britons with Max Faulkner scoring 299 and W. S. Forrester 302. -A.P.
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    HOTSPURS HELD TO A DRAW
    51 11 Brilliant saves by Lloyd, the lanky Malayan Airways XI goalkeeper enabled his team to hold the speedy Hotspuis XI to a 2-2 draw at soccer last Friday. Bor Han scored the two goals for the Airways, while Rex Lee and Shambu Dutta netted for the
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    Great Innings By Denis Compton
    447 11 Reuter. LONDON, Monday. GREAT fighting innings by Denis Compton today saved Middlesex from being routed by Surrey in Eddie Watts' benefit nuitch, but in spite of Compton's fine effort the county championship leaders finished the day in a very difficult position. Replying to Surrey's 444,
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    CRAIGMOUNT SHOWS FINE FORM
    293 11 Going At KJU Very Good From ALLAN LhV\ |S hi ALA Today. £UAIGMOI >1 was the fastest worker wjien the No. t track was opened for training tJus morning, ninninc, three in 38.' 1 The going was very good. Others to do well were John Bull
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    OPENING TIES OF SCOTTISH SOCCER
    87 11 LONDON. Mon. Followin are Scottish League football 1919 S? fC ,e ,n:r MOTTIKH LKAQUB "A" DIVISION Cellic v Rangers. Dundee v. Clyde Hibernian v. Falkirk Patrick v. Motherwell. Queen of the Bouth v. Third Lanark. Raith R. v. East Fife. St. Mlrren v. Aberdeen Albion
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    FIGHT POSTPONED
    34 11 A.P. BELFAST. Mon.—A scheduled ten round non-title bout tonight between world flyweight champion Rinty Monaghan and OteUo Belardenelll of Italy, was postponed today when Rinty reported ho had injured his ankle.—A P.
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    S.C.C. Fail To Make Good Of Early Lead
    307 11 JHE Tiger s Sporting Association found an easy victim in the Singapore Cricket Club whom they beat by four goals to one in an S.A.F.A. Senior league matrh at Jalan Besar Stadium, yesterday. Although the Cluo managed to secure an early lead,
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    TIONG BAHRU RANGERS WIN
    57 11 Tiong Bahru Rangers defeated Pulau Brani Rangers by four-goals at soccer at Farrer Park last Saturday. Playing against the Singapore Improvement Trust soccer team at Farrer Park yesterday the Rangers beat them by six gpals o two. The Tiong Bahru Rangers will play against the Singapore
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    DEATH
    96 11 SIAPAM lUCNO MUI SIM, on 7-4MO At 15, Makepeace JUL aire 58, a very we'i-known ligitre in jrthore, lrtvtij sons, Chou See King, compradore of Hongkong Mid Shanghai Bank, Joh ore Bahru, Chou 3w-r King, the Oversea Chinese Rank, Singapore, Chou Choon Mug and Chou Kheng King of the
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    ACKNOWLEDOGMENT
    39 11 The Koh Brothers and family of the late Mr. Koh Soo Kiong wish to thank all friends and relatives, all Club? and Associations for sending wreatba, messages of condolence, paying visits, and attending the funeral on Sunday 7.8.49.
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    REDS FACE STONEWALL IN INDONESIA
    323 12 But Hatta Warns Of Economic Situation Reuter and A.P. NEW DELHI, Monday. THE spiritual background of the Indonesian people cannot easily be influenced by Communism, but Communist activity is bound to increase if the economic situation does not improve. Dr. Mohamed Hatta, Indonesian Republican Premier,
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    'Road To Freedom Is Full Of Obstacles'
    214 12 Reuter. —MOHAMMED ROEM THE HAGUE, Monday. CfllST of the delegates from Indonesia who will attend a round table conference here, for a permanent Dutch-Indonesia settlement, arrived today. They included Mr. Mohammed Roem, who was Chairman of the Republican delegation at the recent conference
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    SUDAN PROGRESS
    32 12 A.P. i KHARTOUM. Mon.—lt was eliably learned today that the Sudan Government plans to imend the 1943 ordinance 'statushipg cs a ktej) toward? lutoucmy. an executive council nd legislative assembly.—A.P.
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    LONDON SHARES
    177 12 A.P. LONDON Mon Prices of BriO.'h Oevftum«»T!» s'oek* tumbled in the London Sto:k Exchange today. Renew<*l Immtv ramed :> flharp brviik and declines of one and h haJ points were nhown. Irredeemable issues vri'tc the chief sufferers and -howed the 8j per rent, war loin at Throvi-?h-out the
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    Truman Welcomes President Quirino
    293 12 Trum an Welcomes Presi dent Quirino U.P. WASHINGTON, Monday. PHILIPPINE President Elpidio Quirino landed here at 4.27 p.m. (eastern daylight time) today. The following is the text of United States President Truman's greeting to Quirino on his arrival at the national airport: "There Is happily a long history of friendship
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    MRS. WELLES DIES
    31 12 A.P. LAUSANNE, Switzerland. Mon.- -Mrs. Summer Welles, wife of the former U.S. Un-der-Secretary of State, died in her hotel here on Sunday night, hotel officials disclosed on Monday.—A.P.
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    NEW LIBRARY
    21 12 The Joo Chiat Library, in Joo Chiat Road, will be opened officially by Lady Glr.ison today at 6.30 p.m.
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    TIGER KING PRAISES S'PORE CARD SYSTEM
    84 12 Reuter. HONGKONG. Mon. Mr. Aw Boon Haw. the Clunese medicine manufacturer and newspaper proprietor who earlier year was forbidden to enter Malaya, today issued a statement approving the Hongkong Government'? plan for compulsory registration of all residents. He said the plan would help maintain
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    RECAPTURED
    35 12 A.P. HAMBURG, Mon. rwenty >ut of 30 German convicts wiu scaped from a penal camp ist Friday have been recaptured. Hundreds of police searched 21.000 square miles of north«v.\st Germany, for the escapees. -A.F.
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    A Doctor Removes His Own Appendix
    95 12 lir. George C Halierst n is shm\ ii in this unusual photo taking out Mi own appendix. The i picture, copy righted by j tin- Denver Post, was made from a colour transparency tuk-n by a nurse, Mrs. Oladvs 1 Woods. I Shortly afterward,
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    France Tells Bao Dai "We Will Defend Vietnam"
    321 12 Reuter. SAIGON. Monday. ORANGE will aiways be ready to defend the independence and secunty of Vietnam and associated states against any external attack. French President Vincent Auriol. assured Bao Dai, head of the new state of Vietnam, in a letter made public
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    $40,000 CLAIM DISMISSED
    25 12 PENANG, Mon.—A claim 'for $40,000 by plantiff Khoo Kow Keah against Chew Coon Juan, well-known Penang resident, was dismissed today with costs.
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    Profiteers For 'Devils Valley'
    192 12 Reuter. BANGKOK, Mon.—Reversing its previous policy of deportation of alien lawbreakers Thailand now has consigned its first batch of 60 Chinese profiteers to the landlocked "devils valley" in northern Thailand. The valley is named Pctchaboon, a malarious zone more than 3,000 wartime forced labourers died in
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    ACSU Want Pension Plan
    643 12 Tribune Staff Reporter THE 30,000 civilian workers of the thrc Servi in Singapore are demanding the establishment* a Pension scheme, on the same Lines as those ado ed by the Local Government, for both the Esfcrtffi ed and Unestablished Employees, with period of seven years service.
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    TRADE PACT
    30 12 A.P. VIENNA, Mon.--An Au tro-Turkish Trade Afweeiuept was signed in Vienna today by Foreign Minister Dr. Kail timber and Numan Tahir Seymen, the Turkish Ministe; to Austria. —A.P.
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    Kedah Sultan Honoured
    139 12 KUALA LUMPUR Mon Chiefs ot d.-i 's: r Councillors and leaders assem led ln 3alat Boar. Alor Star 5 mormny for th, t.mJT n honour of the 57th birtkE His Highnes, wa s by a guaro-oi-honuur 3 police and Icouti Dunng the cc ren.cny c.aration appointing Yaii,
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY
    143 12 General MK'iWW.'* h, ni vo, em vs. MKUTIO> m a Loh K.-h practice at S5, sum u p.m. l.H.t.A.: OonmsaiuiU French at Raffl.s Quay a.m. »*X7IET\ Lun: h ho .r telk by A. K. Isaac on Tw- "ah* that Last at th< Ta Tn« Ke*taurant. 18. Chulio
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    Cinema
    165 12 CATHAY: Once a JoIi\ man" with Dirk Bognk. Bfar (Joiieano and Renee >.-lx-rKO. 11 a.m.. 1.45. 4 15. 6.4S t SJ p.m CAPITOL: "My Bro'.lier Joathan" with Muha'-l Den:*» Dulrie Gray Ronald Howiri and Stephen Murray, li >®- 1.45, 4. 6.3<> r>nd 9.W p.m. PAVILION: TLf PaFriend?" with Ar;r.
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    Sport
    25 12 i INTER I KAt.l V Chinese CmimI- itjjrJ* United at jHlan —5.15 p.m. cam!»* SOCCER: h'l MM rBe. ir Stpdum -fS.c. FKIKMH SO Cfc»^
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