Malaya Tribune, 5 November 1949

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    67 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE -'V- s—,5 Wt THE PEOPLE -X>R THE PEOPtI A Tribune" S'pon LARCER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 3811/3 X Nine Lines Published simultaneously at 8i ngaport, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh a nd Penang. TWELVE PAGES. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE
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    GOVT. MADE MILLIONS ON SUGAR, FLOUR
    639 1  -  NOW IT GIVES PROFITS BACK By LAWRENCE G. MANI JHE four-cent-cut on katti of rationed sugir Is nw follow*! hv +wo-cent-cut on a k*tti o| wheat flour. This w*s announced l-s< n ght hy the Sfn^R d v conference h*w»:n Economic Secretariat officios of
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    BRITAIN FAVOURS WESTERN GERMANY
    112 1 Reuter. PARIS. Fri. Mr. Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary, told the Committee of 12 ministers of the Council of Europe that Britain was in favour of associating Western Germany with the Counct', an authoritative source stated here. Mr. Bevin added that Bri-t-sh approval was subject t
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    LOVE, MURDER, SUICIDE
    62 1 U.P. NEW YORK. Fri. Wei Huan Kuo. 27, a United Nations Chinese employee kill 3d Mushana Balanska Zolyak. 22. a Lanslator and announcer for the Voice of America, ir. a hotel room today. He then plunged his knife* repeated'y into his own chest and lay down besides
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    INDIAN CONSUL
    31 1 U.P. NEW DEorli, J? n. The Indian Government announced today that T. G. Mcnon. former Indian trade commissioner in Ceylon, has been appointed the first Indian Consul at Manila.—U.P.
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    NEHRU IN N.Y.
    26 1 Reuter. NEW YORK. Fri. Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlil Nehru arrived in New York in an army Constellation from Madison, Wisconsin, tonight. R uter.
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    Wot No Nappies?
    46 1 U.P. LONDON, Fri. Bri- S tish babies are forced to > go without diapers due to a drive to export cot- j S ton goods to the dollar i market, a spokesman of the Wholesale Textile As- 1 sociation said today.— I U.P. j
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    SLANGING MATCH IN PARIS
    105 1 Reuter. PARIS, Fri. —Pro-Commu- nist officials occupied the first floor of the-CiUesc Embassy in Paris tonight and began a slanging match with Nationalists on the ground floor. A French Foreign Office official, the Embassy's first secretary and a police officer sat on the pavement outside and
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    FREE PASSAGE
    36 1 U.P. VATICAN CITY, Fri.—Th.. Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of Faith said today that Catholic pilgrims will be able to travel freel/ through Arab Palestine *f they do not attempt to enter from Israel.—U.P.
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    BUKIT SERENE TALKS END
    98 1 The Bukit Serene Confierence of U.K. Representatives in South East Asia and some neighbouring countries ended yesterday evening. During the last three days its members hay c examine J together many aspects of tb U.K. Policy in South Ease Asia and the Far East. The conclusions
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    Winnie is favourite on bookmaker's table
    208 1 A.P. LONDON, Friday. ANE of London's biggest bookmakers today made Winston Churchill a six to four favourite to be the next Prime Minister of Britain. Second choice for the 1950 Election was Prime Minister Clement Attlee at five to two. By British custom, the
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    KING'S XMAS BROADCAST
    54 1 Reuter. LONDON, Fri. King George will make his usual broadcast to the Common wealth at 3.00 p m. G M T. on Christmas Day, it was officially announced here tonight. His speech, expected to be broadcast from the foyal country residence at Sunuringham, Norfolk, v.:ll fellow a
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    PIN-UPS BANNED
    36 1 A.P. NuivV utiutiL, bri.—tnccures of pin-up girls can no longer be hung in premises occupied by Indian Army personnel. Similar orders are expected to be issued in the Air Force and the Navy —A.P.
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    STRANGE DEATH
    72 1 Reuter. MOMBASA, Fri.—The police here are investigating the strangest death they have ;ver had to handle. Condiliaco Corrca, a steward from the Portuguese port of Goa on the west coast of India, was found dead in the main street of Mombasa. Kenya colony, with a lead pencil through
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    Persuasion
    60 1 Mr. David Rees WUy Hams, Under-Secretary oty State for the Colonies t (extreme right) takes time off diving last V nights' bail at Bukit Se- S rene for a chat with Mrs. i Simpson. Others In the 1 picture are Mr. A.G.D. Simpson, Trade Union Adviser. Singapore, and J
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    Britain Warns Nationalists On Air Attacks
    180 1 A.P. LONDON, Friday. gRITAIN warned Nationalist China today against the use of air attacks to enforce the blockade of Communist-held seaports in China t Britain said that any such attacks on unarmed merchant ships by Chinese Nationalists would be regarded as "an illegitimate and
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    U.K. VOGUE FOR NUDE WOMEN FROWNED AT
    73 1 A.P. LONDON. Fri. Britain's Public Morality Council said today that the vogue for nude women in the British theatre is getting out of hand. "We Ukc entertainment but we do not like filthy entertainment." Some members of the Council blame this on an
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    MINISTER HURT BY ASSASSIN
    73 1 U.P. TEHERAN. Fri.—The government decreed martial law in Teheran tonight after a would-be assassin shot and wounded Court Minister Adol Ho3Bein Hajir. Police said the would-be assassin, identified as Emami, fired one shot at point blana range at Hajir as the former Premier walked toward v
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    RUTH BLOCKS SERETSE FROM CHIEFTAINSHIP
    145 1 A.P. JOHANNESBURG, Fri. The foimer London typi<c Ruth Williams now Mrs. Ruth Khama, white queen designate of the Bamangwa'o tribe in Bechuanaland, is th~ reason why Seretse is not entitled to assume tic tribe's chieftainship, it was mcd med today when the Br tish Judicial
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    TRIPLETS ARE BORN, THEN DIE IN K. L.
    63 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Triplets born to a Chinese woman Wong Kuan at th? Pudu Maternity Hospital la?t night at about 8.30 p.m. died immediately after birth. The babies, ail boys, we: born prematurely. On another occasion recently triplets were born to another
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    BANDITS DRiVEN AWAY
    56 1 KLUANG, Today.—Specia. constables on guard at the I Animal Husbandry Farr.o drove away three bandits prowlers last night. The guard fired over 30 rounds at the creeping figures who were flashing lights as they approached the guard house. A police patrol caught two bandit agents while operating
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    CUSTOMS UNION
    29 1 A.P. mi.—Tnree Scandinavian Foreign Ministers today dec a red their intention to torm a complete customs union between Norway, Sweden and Denmark as soon as possible. A.P.
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    ENGLISH WILL REPLACE DUTCH IN INDONESIA
    106 1 Reuter. Dr. Usman CANBERRA, Fri. En« lish would replace Dutch as the main foreign language n the Un on of Indonesia, Dr. R. TJsman, Indonesian representative in Australia, sa*d here today. Australian technicians an 1 teachers were being recruited for-thc Republic and Aus tralian
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    LABOUR WIN
    33 1 Reuter. LONDON, Fri.—The Labour Paity today won the London County Council North Kensington by-election, and thus regained its elected majority en the Couniil, lost in the local government elections last spring.—Reuter.
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    STOP PRESS Bar On Veto Approved
    131 1 U.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Fri.—The General Assembly** ad hoc Political Committee overwhelmingly approved an Ar-gentine-resolution designed to prevent t he use of veto to bar applicant states from membership of the United Nations. By a vote of 87 to nine with eijrht abstentions, the Committee
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    BALL PEN KING MAY SET UP NEW RECORD
    81 1 Reuter. MANILA, Fri.—Mr. Milton Reynolds, American millionaire pen manufacturer, left here today with high hopes of creating a new record for a round the world flight by commercial au lines. Leaving here today aboard the first Stratpcruu>er ever to land in Manila.
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    BIG FIRMS FINED
    40 1 U.P. WASHINGTON. Fri.—The Justice Department today announced that the General Electric Company and the Westinghouse Electric Company and eight other firm.; hav e been fined $40,000 as a result of two anti-trust cas'i filed against them. —U.P.
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    SAGU RETAKEN
    27 1 Reuter. RANGOON, Fri. -Government troops supported by naval gunboats re-occupied Sagu Island. Communist forttress off the Arakan coast of Burma after a fierce battle today.—Reuter.
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    SLESSOR TO TOUR FAR EAST
    334 2 HERE NEXT THURSDAY AIR Chief Marshal, Sir John Slessor, is to mate A an extensive tour of the Royal Air Force Units in the Far East and Middle East Air Forces before he takes over the post of Chief of the Air Staff on Jan.
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    Bride Of The Week
    41 2 S S Mr. and Mrs. Teo Tian Ek. of Singapore, who were married recently. S The bride i* the only i daughter of Madam Ng > All Tab, of 41-Q, Jalan S Kembangan, off Changi J Bo»d. J
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    TIN THEFT: 4 CLAIM TRIAL
    114 2 Four Chinese, Lim Fuan Cheok. Ng Ek Cnoon. Ng Teng Yam and Png Tian Kar, claimed trial at tne Assize Court yesterday to a charge or housebreaking by night by entering the Straits Trading Company's j Smelting Works at Pulau 1 Brani on the night
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    Opportunity For Malayan India ns
    153 2 The Federal Public Servi. y. Commission will hold an examination in India at Allahabad, Bombay. Calcutta. Delhi, Madras and Nagp.v sometime in February, 1950. for selection of candidat- s for admission to the Militaiy Wing of the Armed Force; Academy and the Air Force Academy
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    Festival—forerunner of things to come McKERRON
    177 2 SPEAKING over Radio Malaya last night on the approaching Musical Festival S.ngapore, Colonial Secretary. Mr. P. A. f-*ff™ there was no reason why the festival lasting one week with a programme of six concerts should not develop one day into a two weekly festival
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    Off To U.S.
    63 2 i Syed Adam JE. Hogan- shaidali of the Andernon S School, Ipoh, who haH i been selected to represent Maiaya at the New York S Herald Tribune Forum i for High Schools which will be held in New York > on March 4, 1950 at the i
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    "Oxi" Day In Greece
    57 2 King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece leave ParUat ment Building in Athens after the recent "Oxi" Daj celebrations. Nine years ago the Greek Premier said "Ovi or "No", quite bluntly, to Italian demands that h» surender strategic areasof Greece. Since then the da\ has been
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    WOMAN AND A BABY WON HIM SATA CONTEST
    282 2 Lye Yin, 18, a senior student at Raffles Institution, will find the greeting seal he designed on sale at every leading store in Singapore during the Christmas season. For Lye Yin has won the SATA competiton for the best designed greeting seal.
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    RAN LOTTERY
    30 2 Goh Teow Chee, 37, was fined $500 by the Fourth Police Magistrate yesterd**.; after he admitted assisting in the running of a chap-ji- k.: lottery on Oct. 28.
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    Indian Businessmen Get Bail
    136 2 Two Indian business men, I Mchindar Singh and Mohan I Singh, under a High Court sentence *f 18 months' and 12 months' gaol, respectively were allowed bail in the sum of $10,000 each by Mr. Justice Gordon-Smith' yesterday. The application for bail was made by Mr.
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    T.B. CLAIMS 28
    35 2 There were 152 deaths in Singapore for the week ending Oct. 29. as compared with 177 the week previous. Tuberculosis was the greatest cause of mortality, claiming 28 victims; pneumonia claimed 24.
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    VARSITY FUND
    11 2 Contributions to the Varsity Fund reached $1,424,--438.98 cents yesterday.
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    R.A.F. MAN ON DRIVING CHARGE
    62 2 Walter Theaker, 43. a Hying officer from R.A.F. SeLtar. was charged in the Firs* District Couit yesterday wi f i> killing Shanmugham by drying his car in a negligent way at tM milestone Ye; Chu Kang Road on Oct. 14. Theaker pleaded not guilt He
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    CONSOLIDATED RATE MAY GO UP 5%
    754 3 Council To Discuss Gtv Provosal w-+r w W r -mr mr THE Consolidated Rate of the Municipal Commission will soon be raised from 20 per cent to 25 per cent, if the Legislative Council at their next meeting pass a proposition which the Municipality
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    2 BANDITS, 2 POLICE KILLED
    238 3 A CHINESE Special Constable who killed a Pc'ice corporal and injured three constables was shot dead when he attempted to escape into the jungle near Karripong Janda Baik. in tha Bent ong district. This occurred on Thursday when a Police jungle squad was on patrol.
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    LANCASTERS HERE FOR EXCERCISES
    64 3 The six Lancastcrs from No. 210 Squadron, R.A.F., under the command cf Squadron-Leader P. Casement. D.5.0.. D.F.C.. whica left St. Eval on November 1. will arrive today at Tengai: from Negombo. During their three-wee.c vtay, the Lancasters will carry out a number of exercises with ships
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    Figures At A Glance
    47 3 Expenditure Salaries and Wages 4,806,294 Cost of living allowances 2,556,458 Expatriation allowances 227,889 Annual Recurrent Expenditure. 24,864,009 Special Services 6,156,720 Special Services Rehabilitation 289,057 88,890,377 Revenue From Water, Electricity and Gas 19,552,000 Frem rates, taxes, fees, etc. S 17,399,000 36,951,000 The Deficit; 1.939,000
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    FENCES FOR JALAN BESAR STADIUM
    87 3 Jalan Besar Stadium is to have new wire fences, outside aad inside, which will cost SiOOOO. i* w«-5 decided. Mr. G. E. N. mentioning the proposed Telok Ayer Basin Stadium which the Government has in mind, suggested that the wire might i not be necessary,
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    PYTHON GOES TO BED WITH CITY FATHER
    87 3 Municipal Commissioner Mr. Pat Johnson, (Lab. North) found a three-foot python in his bed in his house at Pongol on Thursday night. "Normally, I turn in without putting on the light, but this time, it was luc.cy that I turned the light on.
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    MR. S. V. J. PONNIAH,
    36 3 Mr. S. V. J. Ponniah, who sat for the University of London B.A. Honours Examination in English at Kuala Lumpur in June 1949 has passed the examination with Third Class Honours.
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    N.Z. OFFERS US 2 STUDY GIFTS
    319 3 THE Government of Singapore is required by ihe 1 New Zealand Government to submit th<* applications of two nominees for a Fellowship in 1950. The award is open only to persons between 30 and 40 years of age who are engaged in professional, administrative
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    SERVICE
    38 3 The annual Thanks offering Service will be held in English at the Methodist Church, Johore Bahru, on Sundae. Nov. 6, 1949, at 5.30 p.m. The- Roy. Dr. MarmaduUo Dodsworth, M.A. Mission Superintendent, "Singapore, wi'l be the preacher.
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    MR. BAARSPUL KEEPS A PROMISE
    189 3 MR. and Mrs. Yvon Baarspul arrived- in Singapore from Batavia yesterday—to ktep their three month promise that they would return— this time to conduct the Batavia Radio -Philharmonic Oiehcetra. during the Singapore Music Festival. This will he trie lirst time, that Mr. Baarspul conducts in
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    FEDERATION AXES FOOD PRODUCTION
    288 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday, heavy ..train of the Emergency on Federation economy is revealed in the Supply Ordinance for 1950 published here last night. v Outstanding features are the very high expenditure on internal security and the low expenditure on education, even though two-third of the children
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    TOOK MONEY, WATCH AT KNIFE POINT
    89 3 Lee Boon Tong, 19, wa-; gaoled by the Second District Judge, yesterday for one year while his accomplice. Wong Ah Ngau. 1$ got 10 months hard for rotbmg a taxi diiver. The dnvei. Scow Lean Tot. was stopped by Lee an i Wong at
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    Hunger made him steal
    72 3 Ng Yam Chang. 32. tor', the Second Police Magistral yesterday that he stole $4 n worth of wearing apparel ">:: Oct. 26 because he "was hungry." •Ng said that he was formerly a hawker and had h»d his goods confiscated after the police arrested him. "I
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    POWERS VESTED
    34 3 Mr. A. W. Baccy M.C.S and Mrs. M. Webb. M.B.E. have been vested with powers to perform the duties of Protector under the rules made under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance.
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    WORLD PHOTONEWS
    462 4 Manchester England, escapo!os:;st Alan Alan, 24, Made a third try at staying down a nix-foot hole while earth was tamped solidly over him, then attempting to get clear to the surface with his hands Mount. Encased in a wooden box, he has twice been successful, hut at a
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    SATURDAY SHOW ROUND-UP
    1648 5  -  by OSWALD HENRY BATING: Fair; Good; Very Goo 4; BXce lleni. "ONCE UPON A I»RE AM" (Pavilion) This A dream" ot a picture is just 2 Uv* sort of week-end enter- 5 lainment that cinema-goers -j hould cultivate a taste for. £j it is bright and gay
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    'PUBLIC STILL AID BANDITS'
    157 5 IPOH, Friday The Acting Mentri Besar of Perak, Che Mustapha Albakri bin Hajl Hassan told the press here today that there are still a large number of people assisting the bandits with money. "A larger number believe in seeing, hearing and saying nothing. There are adequate
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    TOKYO ROSE BEGINS PRISON LIFE
    116 5 A.P. SAN FRANCISCO, Friday. 'TOKYO. ROSE' today began serving her ten-year federal sentence for treason in the San Francisco County jail. The Government said it would transfer Mrs. Iva Toguri d'Aquino to the federal women's prison at Alerson. West Virginia, later. Mrs. d'Aquino was con-
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    APPEAL TO PRIVY ABOLISHED
    65 5 Reuter. OTTAWA, Fri.—The Canadian Senate has passed a a bill which abolishes appeals to the judical committee of the Privy Council in London and makes thp Canadian supreme court the final court of appeal. It was passed without a recorded vote. The bill has already been
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    CHEVALIER
    34 5 A.P. VIENNA. Fri. Maurice Chevalier, the French movie star, will •make a personal appearance in Vienna during a French film festival week, to be held in Vienna on November 10th to 17th. —A.P.
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    This Time Its Coal
    91 5 Tin Moscow 'First' List: A.P. MOSCOW. Fri—The Literary Gazette said the "myth" that foreigners discovered most of the coal deposits in Russia has been exploded. "Many bourgeois historians," it said, "have* falsely linked the discovery, of industrial coal deposits in Russia with the activities cf foreign
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    Charged with stealing gold WORTH £2,500
    91 5 Reuter. UXBRIDGE near LONDON, Fii. —Six men accused of stealing £2,600 were remanded by a special court today until Nov. 21 The men, described as loaders employed at London airport by British Overseas Airways Corporation, had been arrested during a police raid on the
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      239 5 "philately STAMPS all values U.P.U. issues all States and Settlements ooaenn or hundred. Detail* Box No. Malaya Tribune Kuala Lumpur. (I*96it. MUSIC FOORMAN~S Music Studio, Directed by Prof, and Mrs. Otto Foorman. Piano lessons for beginners and advanced. 37, Orchard Road and 118 Mouunein Road. Telephone 4735. Piano-Accordions and Challen
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    BUKIT SERENE
    457 6 DRITAIN'S representatives in South East Asia have concluded their three day meeting at Bukit Sereme, and the result of their deliberations remains a secret. Here we might hope for some pronouncement, but that is hoping for too much. The news we want can come only from London: a
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    FOR MUTED STRINGS
    174 6 IT is somewhat surprising to see that so experienced an editorial musician as Mr. G. L. Peet of the Straits Times speaks of "sweet and seductive piping" in reference to the Cecil Street lute. From this we can only assume that he is attempting to blow down
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    MYSTERY OF THE MEAT MILLIONS
    1274 6  -  Argentine ranchers have title control over ihe price they are pan! for the meat which Britain buys. Some say Peron is financing his Five- Year Plan with the meat profits. But his officials argue that Argentina makes no profit and some limes even sells to
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    Russia Runs A Legal Black Market In Berlin
    466 6 IF you walk into Hcrtie's, which in days gone by was Berlin's biggest department "tore, you will find almost barren shelves, shoddy merchandise, and more salesclerks than customers. The reason has nothing to do with Hertie's inability to stage a post-war comeback,
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    TRAFFIC JAMS ARE A DAILY OCCURENCE IN PARIS
    485 6 A.P. PARIS, with 300.000 vehicles on its streets compared with 180.000 in 1945. is snarled up daly in the worst trarfic jam :t has ever knewn. Despite its wide tree-lined boulevards and spacious squares, the city has many old and narrow streets
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    Burma Eyes Burma Road Uneasily
    647 6  -  By Donglas Lackersteen BURMA eyes uneasily the Burma Road; worried lest Chinese Nationalist activity on that twisting mountainous highway may make this unhappy land a battleground ground once again. Already torn by anarchic civil wars (quiescent recently because of the monsoon season), Burma fears It
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    Heady For Trouble
    38 7 With Communist troops on the Hongkong border. British forces man their defense installations to forestall attack on the Crown colony. Above, British soldiers go through gun drill at an anti-aircraft battery that guards the harbour.
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    MORE GROUSES ON STATION LOUDSPEAKERS
    112 7 Reuter. LONDON, Fri.—Londi v borougns are arguing over the question "Are some raitway station loudspeakers a public nuisance?" British Railways have asi* ed that they should be exempt from the new bye-laws which are being made tc curb noisy loudspeakers. Hampstead and Stok~ Newington councils
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    MARGARET'S BEAU GETS MARRIED
    36 7 A.P. CHATSMORETH, England, Fr Michael Tree, long con <i a leading eligible foPiincess Margaret's hand, rried 22-year-old Ann-: Cavendish here yesterday. Lady Cavendish is the younger daughter of the Dukof Devonshire. —A.P.
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    FIREBUGS' IN ERPERSDORF
    52 7 A.P. VIENNA, Fri.—Austrian insurance companies list as ■•uninsurable*' against Are in the village of Frp dorf, 20 miles from Vienna. Iv the past live years no than .25 houses have been destroyed there by firL\ Thirty gendarmes patrol tne village nightly, but nevcrthensurancc companies refuse to take
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    Immunity From Assassins Pledge To Pridi
    139 7 Reuter—A.P.P. BANGKOK, Friday. THAILAND'S Deputy Chief of Police, Major General Pao Sriyanond, in an interview today pledged immunity from political assassination to fugitive Thai politician Pridi Phanomyong, should Pridi choose to return to Bangkok from his refuge in China. I The Deputy Police Chief
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    MAGPIES PHONE HOTEL-KEEPER
    83 7 Reuter. ADELAIDE, Fri.—A hoteikcoper here complained recently to the G.P.O. that he had been receiving myste- ous telephone calls. Linesmen who investigate found that nesting magpies had been "dialling" the hotels number —211. The birds, in building their nests on the top of nearby te'ephone poles, often
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    IN THE SAME BOAT
    25 7 A.P. TRIESTE, Fri.—The Moscow radio said Greece and Yugoslavia would soon sign a treaty of friendship. Thera was no confirmation. —A.P.
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    ACCIDENT DIDN'T BOTHER HIM
    64 7 A.P. CALIFORNIA, Fri. Although Giuseppi Merca, 79, was seriously injured, he kept insisting that someone go find the part of his coat that was missing. Police found the frag- ment on the door of the car that struck Merga at an intersection. Merga pulled from is
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    PARISIAN THUGS
    35 7 A.P. PARIS. Fri.—Fifteen new mobile brigades of Police have been formed in Paris to combat increasing lawlessness, which some newspapers say is threatening to make the French capital i kind of "Chlcago-on-th> Seine."'—A.P.
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    CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY
    114 7 A.P. OTTAWA, Fri.—Mrs. Fred Browne said she stopped and got out when she heard a clanging noise under her brand new car. The car seemed to be running all right without th-* big steel disc lying on the road, but she decided to take it home
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    ESKIMO PRIVILEGE
    23 7 A.P. OTTAWA. Fri.—The Canadian Fisheries Department has banned the killing of seals in Arctic waters except as food for Eskimos. —A.P
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    Acheson, Vishinsky To Discuss Germany
    137 7 A.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. A.U.S. State Department official said yesterday A that Dean Acheson and Russia's Foreign Minister Mr. Vishinsky will discuss the German problem in a private meeting in Washington on Monday. The meeting has been i scheduled for several dav-. but bcth Soviet
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    NARROW ESCAPE
    14 7 U.P. BONN. Fri. President Galo Plaza narrowly escaped assassination on Wednesday. —U.P.
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    LAMPSHADES PLAY HAVOC WITH HISTORY
    86 7 A.P. RRADUfG. BN GLAND, Fri. —Lampshades are playing havoc with British history. Lieutenant Colone' G.E.C. Malet. Registrar of the National Register of Archives, told Reading University students. He lamented the custom of using "old deeds. with interesting examples of old writing and historic signature and
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    MASTERS FETCHED ONLY $275
    163 7 A.P. LOS ANGELES, Fri.— Paintings by British, Frenc'i, Dutch and Italian masters were sold at bargain pric it at an auction here in the home of the late At water Kent, who made a fortune manufacturing radio sets and then retired to become Hollywood's favourite party
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    'HAPPY HOMES ARE A NATIONS STRENGTH'
    241 7 A.P. Queen Elizabeth LONDON, Friday. QUEEN ELIZABETH said that happy homes and families are "the true worth and strength of a nation," yesterday. She said this in a speech when she accepted an honorary fellowship in the Royal College of Obste- tricians and Gynaecologists.
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    AUSTRALIANS ARE RECORD CABLE USERS
    56 7 Reuter—A.P.P. MELBOURNE. Fri.—Australia was the most telegramconscious country in tho world, the Australian Direct-or-General of Posts and TeMr. G. Chippindail, said recently. Australians lodged an average of 4.5 telegrams a head each year, almost twice tne number sent by the next highest telegram senders, the
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    PEST EXPERT WILL FIGHT 'BLISTER BLIGHT'
    101 7 Reuter. COLOMBO, Fri.--Dr. P.M. Greenslade. Ph. D., F.R.E S. of Pest Control (U.K.) Limited, Cambridge has arrived m Ceylon to help in the Ceylon Tea Research Institute's campaign against Blister Blight Tne firm Dr. Greenslade represents has experience m the control and eradication of
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    'U.S. MUST STRENGTHEN LAND POWER'
    207 8 A.P. Warns Tydings WASHINGTON, Friday THE United States miU- ta'ry strength is falling pitifully behind Soviet Russia in land power, Senator Millard Tydings said'yesterday. Tydings, who is Chairman of the U.S. Senate Aimed Service Committee, said the Russians have 12 heavily armoured combat divisions for
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    GUARDS FOR OFFICIALS?
    64 8 A.P. RIO DE JANEIRO, Fii. Mario Viana, football referee, has a suggestion to make to keep fans from getting rough with the officials. It is: Assign to each or.c a pair of special police bodyguards. The special Police, ironica: ly called "LiWe Red RidinHcods" by the populace
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    SUICIDES GO UP IN JAPAN
    130 8 Reuter-A.A.P. TOKYO. Fri.—More deathby suicide yesterday wer reported by the Japanese press as police disclosures in dicated another swing upward in the suicide curve. Thirty-eight-year-old Hide- mitsu Tanaka took an ove- i dose of sleeping medicir. then slashed his throat with a razor and laid
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    U.S. Studying Ways Of Aiding Indonesia
    206 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, Friday. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said yesterday the United States is studying ways and means of giving aid to the new Republic of United Indonesia. The new state can "count upon the sympathy and support of all who believe in
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    'Let Them Settle It Themselves'
    76 8 A.P. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Fri.—lndia will oppose any effort from the outside to Impose a settlement of the conflict between Indo-Chinese Communists and anti Communists, Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India said yesterday. The .settlement, he said, should bp made by "the people themselves."
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    GOLD RUSH
    52 8 A group of their equipment and food arrive hy plane on 'Discovery Island, near t, Fairbanks, Alaska. They are joining the rash after go'U was reported io have i been discovered there. S Left to right: Charles J Biderman, Earl Hirst, > Jim Magoffin, pilot and 1 Sam
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    Mr. Bridges Wants Trade Gap Between U.S.-China Spanned
    289 8 A.P. CLEVELAND, Friday. UARRY Bridges, left wing leader of Longshoremen argued yesterday for opening trade with Communist China and Russia. He was arguing against a right wing declaration on foreign policy before tho CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) convention. Bridges said nobody
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    NEW MAIL
    42 8 A.P. LONDON. Fri.—The British Overseas Airways Corporation announced or Thursday that new weekly mail and caigo services to the Midd'e East, Pakistan and India will start this weekend. Four York transports converted into passenger planed will maintain the service. A.P.
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    NO HITCH....
    53 8 U.P. HONGKONG, Fri.— The Central News Agency quoting informed New Delhi souices said today that I r dia's recognition of the Clvnese Communists is expec' able at the end of Novembe; provided no hituh arses Nehru's talks with Britis i Premier Clement Attlee after the conclusion of hin
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    Japan Answers In Millions
    118 8 Reuter-A.A.P. TOKYO, Fri.—From five to six hundred million dollars* worth of capital machinery and technical assistance could be sent for the reconstruction of Southeast AsU during the two years 1950 and 1951. That estimate made by the Japanese Government, ha? been presented to Gener.il Mac Arthur's
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    BLOOD-STAINED SUIT PRODUCED IN COURT
    162 8 Reuter. LONDON, Fri— Charre I remains of a blood-stained suit alleged by the prosecution to have been found at the home of Daniel Raven €3-yeai-old advertising agem. were produced in a magi-, trate's court here tod'iv when he was charged wit 1 murdering his wife's
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    P.I. Presidential Candidates All Set
    312 8 A.P. MANILA, Fri—Political campaigning reaches its climax in the Philippines on Tuesday, November Bth, when the young Republic elects its President for the next four years. It is the first presidential election for the Islands as an independent nation. WW I threatening to explode into
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    Should U.S. Go Back To Gold?
    276 9 ■JEW YoRK. Fti. -Should IS th.' United Oovernment let Americans have gold n exchange for paper dollars 7 Those who are sun nosed to know all about such Strings are choosing up aides on that question. Some of the nations top hankers say yes.
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    BETTER TURN IN RUBBER MARKET
    234 9 AFTER weeks at around the 44 cent level the A market has at last shown "tendency 1o move iinward and yesterday only just failed to reach the says the rubber market report for the week issued by Lewis and Peat last night. Lower grades have
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    COMMONS VOTE ON INDUSTRIAL DIVIDENDS TAX
    70 9 A.P. LONDON. Fri.—The House of Commons apptoved an increase of one-fifth of industrial dividends tax. The House defeated an opposition amendment «> thiow out the Governments hill to raise the dividends tax f!om 25 to 30 per cent. Then without a recoid vote, it
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    Along The Godowns
    52 9 Kutsang (44); Cgama (42/43); Demta (41); Riverside (33, 34); Benavon (V 7 18); Jerantut (22); Seudai (21); St. Augustine Victory (23 24); Hope vif 1* (27/28); Bennevis (29/30); Rajula (15 16) Polyphemus (13 14); Tyadareus (11); Meerkerk (8 9); Idomeneus (6/7); British Prince (4 5) .Kota liede
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    FIRE, DRAUGHT RUIN BRAZIL COFFEE CROPS
    112 9 A.P. SAO PAULO, BRAZIL. Fri. —Forest fire? and a long drought are ruining next year's coffee crop, Silvio Pacheco, of the Farmers' Association, reported after a tcur of the interior areas of Sao Paulo. There are forest fires almost everywhere, he said, and the
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    SIR JOHN HAY FLA YS AMERICAN TRADE POLICY
    414 9 U.P. LONDON, Friday. WINETY thousand tons of Malayan rubber is worth 11 more than 200,000" bales of American cotton compared with 600,000 in 1939, according to Sir John Hay, Chairman of Guthries an(} many Malayan plantation rubber companies. He was addressing the
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    COPRA FUNDS TENDER BOUGHT BY DEALERS
    93 9 The Indonesian Copra Fund's tender of 5.400 piculs of Indraglri copra was taken up dealers at $35 per picul ex-godown. This is equal to a price of $36 per picul f.o.b. F. 0.8. sellers were unwilling to make offers yesterday. Most produce marker were
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    CHEAPER SKINS
    33 9 A.P. NEW YORK, Fri. Currency revisions may result in somewhat lower prices on future imports of goatskins from India to the United States, reports the International Statistical Bureau, a private agency.—A.P.
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    WEEK'S PRICES
    100 9 1949 are- in S tho Wf>ok endin K November 4. Highest and Lowest prices dur noon Spot Loose xT j5 44.1 4 44.7,8 R.M.A. 1 R.S.S. FOB. Nov. 4o 44. L 4 44 7 8 R.M.A. 2 R.S.S. F. 0.8. «.o «J 4 «M R.M.A. 3 R.S.S. F.
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    China Reds Start Insurance Firm
    88 9 A.P. SAN FRANCISCO, Fn The Chinese Communists say they have established the "Chinese People's Insurance Company" to handle life, fire and transportation insurance. They say it later will extend coverage to agriculture and other industries. Apparently it is an agency of the Communist govern- ment,
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    BAR ON DUMPING LIKELY
    136 9 A.P. LONDON, Fri. —Govern- S ment controls wIU prevent f any appreciable increase in J the import of cheap Japan- t e«.»- goods to the sterling t area in the near future. I i Board of Trade President 1 Harold Wilson told Purlia- V i ment
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    SEA MAIL
    55 9 Mails aie expected fiom India and Federation at the G.P.O. tomorrow. Latest time for posting to Hong Kong, Japan and Pontianak will be Noon and for Thailand, Medan, Great Britain. N. Ireland, Eire, Europe. Egypt, North and West Afiica, West Indies. Ceylon and the Federation will be 6
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    Slightly Steadier
    44 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. t London sent some buying orders for tin S shares, today and this J I had a slightly steady- I ing effect locally. A 1 few prices showed some V 1 improvement. Indus- j L trials remained mainly 1 unchanged-
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    AMERICA USES MORE LATEX
    205 9 USIS. WASHINGTON, Friday. CONSUMPTION of natural latex in the United States during the month of September hit a new high, according to preliminary figures just reported by the U.S. Commerce Department September latex consumption totalled 3,657 long tons—l 3« tons higher than the record sent in
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    NO DUMPING?
    41 9 TOKYO. Fri—The formation of an exporters association to exercise self-supervi-sion over Japanese exporters and prevent dumping in the aftermath of the abolition of the export floor prices is being planned by the Yoshida Government, according to the Japanese press.
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    War Hits Burma Rice Crops
    54 9 RANGOON. Fri. Civil war has cut Burma's rice crop. The aation will have a smaller surplus for export in 1950. Agriculture Minister Ba Gyan said How much Burma will be able to export wi'.' be determined in a forthcoming Government survey. "The outlook is not
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    SUGAR HEARINGS
    48 9 A.P. WASHINGTON. Fri —The government will begin public hearing here on Nov. 30 on now much sugar t should permit to be sold in the United States during 1950. The legislation is aimed to protect domestic producers against undue competition from lower cost foreign producing areas—A.P.
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    Rubber Used To Toughen Leather
    201 9 USIS. WASHINGTON, Fri.—Natural rubber greatly improves the durability of leather, experiments at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards have revealed. Through a new treating process which impregnates the leather with rubber. Bureau scientists have been able to increase abrasion and water resistance so that sub-standard
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    790 9 Malayan Share Quota tions Singapore, Fri. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Atlas Ice 15.50 16.50 Alex. Bricks Pref. 2.50 Ord. 2.15 2.22% 8.8. Petrol 34/6 35/6 B.M. Trustees 7.50 8.50 Con. Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/3 Ord. 15 6 16/6 E. Utd. Assur. 40.75 41.75 Est. Trust Ag. 7.00 8.00 Fed. Dispensary
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    WRESTLER TAKES A 'DAY OFF'
    368 10 ONE of the most often questions asked handsome Ty Layton, sbr-foot-five and j?5.7-pyand American grappler is: What made you choose wrestling instead of boxing? Ty (short for Gianty) ha,s always a smite to go with the answer to this pet question. He tells them: "As
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    Australia expects to win 26 titles at N.Z. games
    264 10 SYDNEY. IMPORT officials recently assessed that Australia has good prospects of winning at least 26 titles at the Empire Games to be held in Auckland in February next. This would give Australia the Empire Championship. They expect Australian Olympic sprinter, John
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    ALEXANDRA TO MEET R.A.E.C.
    56 10 The Alexandra Tennis Club will nieel Royal Army Education Corp at tennis today at 4.30 p.m. The teams are:— ALEXANDRA: Lt. Col. Price, Majors Greenwood, Arnold. Rogers, and Howard. Captains Rusaell, Smith and Prior and Lt. CoUdk. K.A.E.C.: Majors Williams and 8«well, Captains Roscoe, Matthias and
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    MANAGERS FIGHT CLUB'S MONOPOLY OF BOXERS
    434 10 (By Jack Cuddy) NEW YORK. A KNOCK-DOWN, dragn out fight between the powerful New York Boxing Managers Guild and the International Boxing Clvb —most farflung "Monopoly" in ring history—appears imminent. At a special meeting October 7. the Gum.' ed the I.fj.C.'s power I y
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    WARD IS THE BIGGEST PRIZE WINNER
    120 10 The golf season just ended shows that £27.640 was awarded in pri/r» money in major tournaments last summer eleven meetings in all. The biggest prize-win-ner, the player with the lowest aggregate and holder of the Harry Vardon Trophy all for the second year in
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    SELECTORS WILL EYE MILBURN, WRIGHT CLOSELY
    660 11 A.P. By JIM CHAMBERS LONDON, Friday. ENGLAND football selectors who have to pick a team to play against Ireland on Nov. 16 will be a lot happier if Billy Wright, the Wolverhampton Wanderers' left half and Ja<sk Milburn of New Castle United come through
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    BEAT BEFEREE
    24 11 A.P. SAO PAULO, Brazil, Fri. —Vicente Veocnio, accused cf boating up a football referee, was banned from football fields for three months.—A.P.
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    COLONY'S FOUR TOP WOMEN PLAY TONIGHT
    439 11 Singapore Badminton Championships By Our Badminton Correspondent PI REWORKS are expected in the concluding games of the Singapore Badminton Championships to be played today and tomorrow at the Clerical Union Hall. The Colony's four top women players clash tonight in the semi-finals of the
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    VARSITY HELD TO A DRAW
    68 11 The University of Malaya drew one-all with the Ceylon S.C. in a keenly conteste l game of hockey played at the Medical College ground yesterday. The "Varsity side started promisingly and opened accounts through Oorlo, aboni midway through the first half. After interval, the Ceylonese
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    C.S.C. BILLARDS
    15 11 Entries for the C.S.C. Billiards liHy Championships have Deen extended to Nov. 7.
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    TIGER ME ITS TIGER AT HAPPY WORLD
    127 11 TIGER Thompson, tlie young British gta-ler takes on Tiger Amat. the Malay matman in the main event at the Happy World Stadium tonight. It shoulti be a thrilling match. Both boys arc out for a quick decision. In the semi-final Boik Lim, the
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    PEARLS B.P. BEAT PRISIONS
    133 11 The Pearls Badminton Party of the Sub-Wardens Association Outram Road, d-feated the Johore Bahru Pnscns B.P. by six games to two at Pearls Court on Wednesday. Results: (Pearls players mentioned first): SINGLES M. Yunos beat Mohd. Haji Mohd Saiid 15-5; 15-9 A. Malik beat Lim Joo
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    ALL OUT: 213
    54 11 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Fri. New Sou* 1 Wales were all out in the'r first innings for 213 against Western Australia in the'r Sheffield Shield match which began here today. At the close Western Australia had scored 14 for no wicket in reply. J. Decourey was New South Wales'
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    WILIE SMITH FEELS THE STRAIN
    212 11 Reuter. LONDON, Fri.— Kingsley Kennerley- of Birmingham won five of the frames today against Willie Smith, .63-years-old former world billiards champion, in their world snooker championship semi-final qualifying match here. M A Showing signs of fatigue Smith was eclipsed in almost every department of the
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    Denis In Car Crush
    47 11 DENIS COMPTON, the England and Middlesex cricketer and Arsenal footbaUer, was involved in a road accident on Thursday night. He was not hurt. The car, which Compton was driving, came into collision In a London suburb with a 76-year-old cyclist, who was killed.
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    'Keepers Steal The Show In Cup Game
    265 11 RAF CHANGI held the Royal Navy to a goalless draw when they met in a second round SAFA Cup competition game held at Jalan Besar yesterday. The brilliant goal-keeping by Holloway and McMahon was the highlight of the game. Play was dull at
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    RBC'S TROUNCE ST. ANDREWS
    63 11 In a game of hockey played on the padang yesterday S.R.C. Club XI easily beat St Andrews School by five goa's to nil. The Rees led by three goats at half time, the scorers being Tessensohn, D'Almeida and Nunes. On resumption Scully an i D'Almeida again
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    BOXING DATES RESHUFFLED
    62 11 U.P. NEW YORK, Fri. The ten-round heavyweight bout between Roland La Starza of the .Bronx and Cesar Brion of Argentina at Madison Square Garden was shifted today from December 9 to December 2, when negotiations for a Jake Lamotta Robert Vlllc/nain march co'lapsed. La Starza and Brion
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    Singapore Offers Sands Four-Figure Purse
    168 11 fkAVE SANDS, British Empire middleweight boxV ing champion has been offered a four-figure purse to meet Boy Brooks, triple Orient crown holder in Singapore in February. Sands, who is also Australia's heavyweight, light-heavyweight and middleweight champion may fifrht here on hia return to England- Sands
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    Tempest again Impresses...
    812 11  -  VOt H rlXllltf 4*4# By ALLAN LEWIS yOUR HIGHNESS (Spowart) showing his usual preference for a wet track did best this morning when he ran three furlongs (from the five to t,he two) in 39. Your Highness has done very well sinoo he last sported silk on
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    Services Out To Win...
    224 11 Lian Teck Soccer THE annual charity soccer match between the Combined.Services and Singapore Civilians for the "Tay Liai Teck Shield" will De plf|yc'l at. Jalan Besar Stadium tomorrow at 5 p.m. The Shield was present" i by Mrs. Tay Lian Teck in memory of her late
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    DYNAMOS SUNK
    31 11 A.P. LONDON. Fri. Masco v Torpedos beat Moscow Dynamos 2—l in the final of theSoviet Cup Tournament :>t the Dynamo Stadium today, the Soviet monitor reported in London. —A.P.
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    Azores Air Crash
    45 12 This Is a general view of the wreckage of the Air France Constellation airliner which crashed at Punt a Belgada, Azores. Forty-eight people, including the famous French boxer Marcel Cerdan and Ginette Neveu, the French violinist, lost their lives in the crash.
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    SHE PREFERS GAOL TO LOVE MAKNG
    199 12 U.P. PORT ORCHARD. Washington. Fri. A mystified husband, whose pert wife admitted hiring two men to murder him because "he wanted to make love every night." today sought desperately to raise a $7,500 bad to get her back home. But tiny blue-eyed Mrs. Margaret
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    AIR MAIL
    76 12 Mails expected today are from Aden* Afganistan, USA, Russia. South America, Azores, West Indies, Canaaa. Chile. Denmirk. Egypt, Eire, France. Africa. Germany, Great pritain. ladia, Persia. Iraq. Malta, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand. Hon kong, B.irma, Ceylon, Batavia, Mcdan, Palembang, Padang, and Federation. Mails for U.S.A.. Russia. Brunei, and
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    ANOTHER CRASH
    28 12 Toulouse, France, Fri. —Four persons were killed and 11 injured today when a French Navy Sunderland ilyingboat crashed on a takeoff from the naval base here.
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    MacA Expects Jap Peace Treaty Next Year
    346 12 Reuter, U.P. and A.P. MANILA, Friday. QENERAL Douglas Mac Arthur expects a peace treaty with Japan to be signed early next year in Tokyo, a high SCAP source revealed. The source said that General Mac Arthur was highly gratified at the progress made
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    THEY LEAVE THE RISK TO THIEVES
    113 12 Reuter. LONDON. Fri.—Thefts of loaded lorries have decreased in tne last few months. One reason is that many receivers of stolen goods have been rounded up recently. Another is the extension of the secret-mark system for identifying property. Practically every pack of cigarettes bears
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    CHIANGS TROOPS FLEE INTO MACAO
    256 12 PORTUGUESE GUARDS DISARM, UNFROCK NATIONALIST SOLDIERS Reuter and U.P. HONGKONG, Frid«y. f HINESE Nationalist soldiers were today srre«»nvng in*o Portuguese Macao, bordering Hongkong to the west, as Communist forces pressed to within miles of the international front'er. Thousands of peasants seeking escape from the bante
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    Britons In Canton Well Says Coghill
    177 12 Reuter. HONGKONG, Friday. DRITISH and other foreigners in Canton are safe *nd well, according to the British Consul-Grrr-r»l Mr. John P. Coghill in an interview by radifi telephone today. Commimica'ion by radio telephone between Hong'ton? and Canton was resumed today for the first time
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    TIENTSIN HAS A RUSSIAN CONSUL GENERAL
    123 12 A.P. TOKIO. Fri. The Ch nese Red Radio reported n Rus-ian consulate genera! has been established in Tientsin. In a broadcast monitorei here, the Peiping Radio sai J Soviet Consul General Tito/ ha* been named actr.g chief of the Russian agency. The United States
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    WEEK-END DIARY General
    201 12 MovIa Circle Show The Plainsman at 8 p.m. SINGAPORE CHESS CLCB Weekly meeting at Y.M.C.A. at 3 p.m. «Vlw l R TY *V»»CAL DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION: Fourth Anniversary Celebration at 11 Martia Singapore. SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TBI ST SPORTS CU B: Social Dance at SL Andrew s School Hall.
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    Cinema
    308 12 CATHAY: "Three Goufathers" with John Wayne at 11, 1.45, 4.15. 6.46 and 9.30 p.m. Midnight: "The Sons of their Fathers" (Mandarin). A LHA X BRA: "Heav«nlv Souls" (Mandarin) with Butterfly Wu Hwang Tan Fung and Pai Yuen at 1.45, 4.15, 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. Sunday Matinee: "Dr. Cyclops" at
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    Church Services
    347 12 TODAY SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH: (5. Penang Road); Saboah School 3.30 p.m.. preaching service 5 p.m. TOMORROW CHURCH OF ENGLAND: St. Andrew's Cathedral 7 a.m. 8 a.m., 10.30 a.m.. |1.30 a.m. 5.30 p.m. St. George's Garrison Church, Tanglin, (open to civilians) 7.15 a.m„ 9 a.m.. 9.45 a.m. 6.30
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    Sports
    90 12 SOCCER: Indian Tourists v. Spore Civilians. Jalan Besar stadium. RUGBY: Spore Civilians v. Sore Services (HMS Malav-j) on padang; **olice v. R.A.F. Changi. Thomson Road. GOLF: Eu Tong Sen Cup. qualifying round Island Club. 2 p.m. BADMINTON: Spore championships at Clerical Union Hall. 2.15 and 7 30 p.m.; Interfaculty
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    PERON FIRES FIRST SHOT
    66 12 A.P. BUENOS AIRE3, Fri. President Peron fired p rifle shot today aflhi lUy ore. ing the 1949 World Sh..<.tin<r Championship in which 335 persons from I*> OStMtfl are competing. Austria with a single entrant led the inaugural parade followed other national delegations. Other Europe?n entrants came
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    ABDUCTED GIRLS
    25 12 A.P. LAHORE, Pakistan, Fri.— One hundred and thirty nonMuslim Kashmir abductvd women and girls recently were brought to Amritsar in India" East Punjab.—A.P.
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    MR. JUSTICE LAVILLE
    52 12 The Tribune poster "Johore Judge Held On Bribery Charge", which appeared in Johore yesterday, did not refer to Mr. Justice Laville, but to Mohammed Nassir bin Haji Abubakar. first Class Magistrate and Circuit Magistrate for Johofe South. The Tribune regrets any inconvenience which Mr. Laville may have
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    SUPER ATHLETIC MEET IN TOKYO
    49 12 A.P. TOKYO, Fri.- -A super athletic meet has just ended in Tokyo which .overshadows practically every other athletic enterprise of less than Olympic status. Fourteen thousand men and women chosen from Japan's 46 ath'etii Autumnal Meet sponsored by the Japan Amateur Athletic Association. —A.P.
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    FOOCHOW RAIDED
    25 12 A.P. CHUNGKING, Fri. The Chinese Nationalist Air Force announced today that it haJ heavily bombed the airfield* and waterfronts at Shanghai and Foochow.—A.P.
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    RE-ELECTION
    24 12 U.P. CLEVELAND. Fri.—PhiLo Murray was re-elected by ajclamation to his 10th consecutive term as National Pre* sident of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.—U.r.
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    Alexander Greets Nehru
    35 12 Viscount Alexander of Tun is (left), Governor General of Canada, greets Pandit Nehru. Prime Minister of India, on the latter's arrival at Government House, Ottawa, on October 23. A.P. Picture. A.P. Picture.
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    Change Policy On Asia Or Face War
    222 12 U.P. WALTER JUDD COLUMBUS, Ohio, Friday. REPUBLICAN Representative Walter Judd said that the United States faced another world war and urged a changed policy toward Asia to combat Communism. "Unless immediately, and v may already be too late, there is a drastic reversal
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    TYPHOON TOLL: 271 DEAD
    64 12 U.P. MA *iL£. Fri. The Philiopine Ked Cross announced today that 271 persons were left dead in the wake of the whf S i r Us Pacific typhoon which swept through the Vlsayan islands with many areas stiH unheard from due to damaged communications. Twcntyfive-thousand pcrf"
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    LONDON SHARES
    128 12 Reuter. LONDON. Fri. British Gov io*er in the London Stock Ex.han*e today. Small soiling f ol Mort^Jo° a n S by the A«rir„lturi! Mortgage Corporation. T)io rat- .ncreased from 31 to 4 ™r The fall in funda cast some Wi.h the trading volume very small in view of
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    HATTA LEAVES DOOR OPEN FOR EXPANSION
    124 12 Reuter. THE HAGUE. Fri. Th? new United St?tes of Indonesia whi'e disapproving an" Asiatic bloc, "would have consider" possible request; for incorporation from the peoples of British Born-) Portuguese T mor or Ang-lian-mandated New Guintr Dr. Mohammed H?tta. Indonesian lcador, said today. Dr. Hatta,
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    CABLE BRIEFS
    193 12 Reuter. PLANES CLASH: bridge, brlc Of Wight, I Two Royal Air Fcrco planes, a Lincoln Bomber and a Mosquito fighter, cor "1 in the air and crash i ifl names in the English Channel about six miles off here late yesterday. Nine airmen—seven aboara the Lincoln and two
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