Malaya Tribune, 25 November 1949

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    58 1 MALAYA Tribune by msJLgL LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 3811/3 T Nine Line* Publisln d aimultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipnh and Penana. TWELVE PAGES. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON *MP*BBBNTATIVM E Maurue (Hour. Mulatto Tnbunv Offict, 113 Flttt
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    REES-WILLIAMS: 'FED ON SOOTHING SYRUP'
    942 1 PLANTER CHIEF LASHES GOVT. (From Our Staff Correspondent) JGHORE BAHR'J, Today: —Mr. J. C. Mathison, Chairman of the Jofio e Planter's Association, declared to-day that Mr. David Rees Williams, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies had been fed a powerful soothi no syrup which made
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    STEEL BILL GETS ROYAL ASSENT
    139 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. Tho rnment's bill to nation Britain's aon and steel lustry became law tonight a it was given tho Koyal as.sent. ■V ten hours canter the .oiuiu.-mtly Conservative is, oi bMdta had cgreci to Government amendments the Iron and Steel >Jation- sat ion
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    BRITAIN OWES AMERICA $7,500,000,000
    84 1 A.P. WASHINGTON. Thurs.— Britain, the largest of America's 59 foreign nation lebtor?. owes U. 5.57.500.000.000. th<* U.S. Commerce Dcoaitment will have to pay nearly a.000.000,000 interest alone during the next 50 years, the department added. France is America"; next largest debtor with a total of Altogether.
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    AUSTRALIANS HALT SALE OF WHEAT TO JAPS
    107 1 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY. Thurs.—Australia will not sell any mot:* wheat to Japan until commitments to o.her countries are lined up with the supplies available from the new crop Mr. C. J. Perrett, Chairman of the Australian Wheat IJoard, announced today. He said that Australia
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    'CLEARING HOUSE' PROPOSAL REJECTED
    118 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Thurs.— Three of the woe'd's leading agricultural producers and exporters, the United States, Canada and Australia, and the world's leading agricultural importer, the United Kingdom, today iejected a proposal to establish in internat onal commodity clearing house to prevent ..isastroufarm surpluses in some countries
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    BURMA PILOT SHOT DOWN
    47 1 A.P. RANGOON, Thurs.--Cap-tain Jamrs U. Harper, chief p !ot of Burma Airlines was shot and sor .ously grounded by small arms fire today while dying 300 miles north of Rangoon. He was admitted to hospital in Mandalay after making i forced landing.— A.P.
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    BISHOPS' WARNING
    32 1 U.P. PRAGUE, Thurs. Czechoslovakia's Roman Catholic bishops ordered priests today to resist the Communist Government's campaign to seize control of the church and threatened to unfrock any who. refuse.— U.P.
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    OUR U.S. IMPORTS
    29 1 A.P. WASHINGTON, Thurs.—The United States exerted rssXl,sfH,.)lo worth of goods to Malaya in the first nine months of this year, it was announced in Washington today.—A.P.
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    W. GERMANS WILL NOT REBUILD ARMY
    204 1 U.P. BONN, Thursday. THE West German government pledged itself to oppose a recreation of the German Army in ten-point Allied-German protocol signed today. Trie protocol, in effect a list of agreements and concessions between the Allied High Commission and the West German government, committed
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    ONLY A Rl'MOl'R
    27 1 A.P. MOSCOW. Thurs. —A Thailand Legation spookesman said today that he had heard nothing to indicate that his government is closing ltsr Moscow legation.—A.P.
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    Centre For Future Health Education Is Being Studied
    269 1 Tribune Staff Reporter JHE Singapore government is to set up a special Committee to investigate the posbibility of establishing an Urban Health Centre for the Colony, on the lines of a scheme put up by the University of Malaya authorities. The University
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    SOUTH AFRICAN LOAN FAILS IN LONDON
    110 1 Reuter. PRETORIA, Thurs.—Official reaction to the failure of the South African loun m London was that the reason should be sought in London lather than South Africa. It was stated that Britain warned the Union beforehand that conditions of the London market at present
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    EDEN WANTS F.E. DEBATE
    55 1 Reuter. LONDON. Thurs. Ml Anthony Eden, deputy leadc. oi the Opposition, asked in t*» House of Commons today tc a debate on the Far East, th Middle East and the position the Italian colonies. Mr. HeroeiL Morrison, lead mt or' tne House, replied tn. ho would
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    LIVING BUDDHA APPEALS TO REDS?
    127 1 Reuter. HONGKONG. Thurs. Peking Radio reported today that the "Living Buddha" of Tibet, the 12-year-old Panchen Lama, had appealed to the Chinese Communists to "liberate Tibet, w.pe out all tra torous elements and deliver the people." Communist leader Mao Tsetung and Gen. Chu Teh had
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    U.K. DECIDES TO RECOGNISE MAO
    151 1 BUT DATE NOT YET FIXED U.P. LONDON, Thursday. BRITAIN has decided to grant de jure recognition lo Communist China, informed sources said today. The sources would not disclose when recognition would be announced but hinted th-*t it may follow the adjournment of the United Nations
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    PRESS SCREENED
    40 1 U.P. BUENOS AIRES. Thurs.- Congee nal committer .nti-Argentine i-signed ac- the bocks a of the United Pc s and. the Associated Pres from August L 1945. The committee also stationed two uniformed police at the UP office.- U.P.
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    SiR JOHN CHOSEN
    21 1 U.P. I'AKi.S, Tr.urs. Sir Maud ot Brit-am was eiecieo President of the executive 11 of Lne UNESCO today.—U.P.
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    Rice Will Be 26 Cents On Monday
    202 1 Tribune Staff Reporter SINGAPORE and the Federation Governments 13 announced last night a two-cent cut in the price of rationed rice, with effect from Monday. The price will now be 26 cent.s a katti instead of 28 cents. On November 6. the Sunday
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    INDIAN RALEIGHS
    43 1 Reuter iwOiS LMJRN, Tnuis. The Raieigh Industries Ltd., announced today that «.r»ey had decided to associate themselves with the flotation of a company in Ind a with the jltiniate object of manufacturing their marks of pedal c/2les in that country. Reuttv.
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    GUN-RUNNERS BARTER RICE
    218 1 A.P. RANGOON. Thurs.—Organised gun-running on a large scale by sea between Burma and Thailand was claimed here by a former district commissioner whose territory houses the headquarters of the gun-runners. The commissioner, %ow in Rangoon awaiting transfer ordeis, said a Chinese ring headed by an elusive will-o'-the-wisp
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    3900<M>00 Freit<*ltgittv!i
    87 1 3 9 00&lt;M&gt;00 Freit&lt;*ltgitt v !i STOP PRESS Reuter. PARIS, Thurs.—Parisians today laid in emergency food s),id;s a* millions of workers prepare;! for a 21-huur nationuid» Mrike starting at IMC minute oast midnight tonight. Mere than :&gt;,OOu,«KH) workers, ignoring :&gt;ti a-.meal U&gt; I'riuie &gt;dn:ste &lt; au'l &gt;&lt;»r r&lt;-a*s(i:i and v
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    BAB if CtRL
    89 1 A twenty-duy old lain;! baby was fuund drowned in a well at J Alan K;iy.i. S« bar, yesterday. Her mother said that at 10 a.m. she left her live chilu.e'i in the labourers quait.iv a- i went to do nci washing. W.ion she returned two hours L.Ler
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    The Percussion Band 7 and Choir of Primary ; ) 11, Gan Eng Seng School > ( playing at the school \ concert held recently.
    20 2 The Percussion Band 7 and Choir of Primary 11, Gan Eng Seng School &gt; playing at the school concert held recently.
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    APPLICATION IS DISMISSED
    39 2 An application by Mis. R.J. Shcntob for vacant possession of house No. 162, East Coast Road, which is now occupied by Madam Gwee Kwce Neo. was dismissed by Mr. A. W. Bellamy. Civil District Judge. yesterday.
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    S'PORE ART SHOW PLANNED IN 1950
    159 2 THE newly formed Singapore Art Society will sponso; iU first exhibition at the British Council Had cany next year. Organised by Mr. Loke Wan Tho and Dr C.A GiosonHill. the eight-day exhibition will be open to all icsidents of Singapore and the Federation. Mi
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    More teachers for S'pore
    154 2 THE Department of Edaeatioa Singapore may recruit 250 men and women frcm March 1 and a further 250 fiom Jupe L The minimum salaries will probably be $90 for men and" $80 for woman plus the usual C.O.L.A. Singapore and Housing Allowances. This type of employment,
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    COUNCIL MEET
    17 2 The Singapore Legislative Council will meet on Dec. 20 at 10 o'clock in the morning.
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    Argonauts Take Over On Far East Lines
    221 2 FIGHT more Argonaut services have this month replaced i Yorks. Lancaster* and Skymasteis operated by British CKersea Ail ways Corporation. These are on the Eastern and Far Eastern routes planer; arc pioving popular and wi'.i increase the standard of comfott and better times
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    Said He Was A Detective —Gaoled
    105 2 Said He Was A Detective Gaoled For impersonating a detective and robbing Ong Tcow Seng of $165, Abdul Rashid Nenck. 20 was sent to prison for a year's hard labour to be followed by two year's police supervision. Ong said that on the night of Sept 29, Abdul came up
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    HE WANTS TO SEE A PSYCHIATRIST
    69 2 L. C. Lincoln, a rubber planter, was gaoled for one month by the First District Judge yesterday after he was found guilty of breaking into the house of Irene Shaw shortly after midnight on Nov. 13. Lincoln asked the Judge to allow him to
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    HOMES, FLATS FOR SOL DIERS IN U.K.
    327 2 New War Office Policy 4 THE War Office has adopte d a policy of hiring furnished houses on short lease tor married soldiers in Horn e Commands since last April. But Singapore army authorities have no knowledge of it what scever. A despatch
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    Leonardo Siddons and his niece Miss Lourdes Royes, and other members of the institute of Dance S Teachers who will give exhibition dances in aid oi the \ y University Endowment Fund at the New World Cabaret i I tomorrow. Admission fee will be a dollar. * , i, \ 1
    47 2 Leonardo Siddons and his niece Miss Lourdes Royes, and other members of the institute of Dance S Teachers who will give exhibition dances in aid oi the y University Endowment Fund at the New World Cabaret i I tomorrow. Admission fee will be a dollar. i, 1
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    'NEHRU'S U.S. TOUR WAS A GREAT SUCCESS'
    68 2 MR. Loy Henderson, 57, U.S. Ambassador to India and Nepal in Singapore yesterday told the Tribune "that Pandit Nehru's visit to America was more successfu' than we hoped." Mi. Henderson arrived at Kallang Airport in a U.S. military plane from Bangkok. He is
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    CITY TO TAKE OVER LAND
    60 2 A Municipa' Committee has recommended the compulsory acquisition of land sites Nos. 97, 99, and 101 in Bencoolen Street. The land Ls wanted for extending the Registrar of Vehicles' trisha and bicycle registration yard Municipal Commissioners when they meet on Wednesday will be asked to
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    Mr. Oehlers Attacks Mr. C.C. Tan
    110 3 Labour candidate for City Ward, Mr. F. B. Oehlers, at an election rally near the Cenotaph yesterday, tore up a newspaper cutting which contained the Pro- sive Party President Mr. C. C. Tan's letter about the L.bour Party. Said Mr. Oehlers in contempt "This
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    FORCE ALONE WON'T DO IN INDO-CHINA
    273 3 j4iE military situation is still harsh and progress in Indo-China, though steady, will perhaps be slow. The authorities in Indo-China are agreed that the solution to the country's problem cannot be a military one by itself. It must be political. This was revealed in
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    Detention Camps MNP Protest Against Government Policy
    240 3 A spokesman of the Malay Nationalist Party yesterday protested against the Federation Government's "discriminatory policy" of denying the Party the right to visit detention camps in the Federation. He said he could not understand why the Federation Government should take such an unfavourable
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    Rulers Meet In K.L.
    51 3 Kuala Lumpur, Thurs. Sultans of the various States of the Federation will meet tor the Conference of Rulers in a two day session in Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 30. i One of the subjects that will come up for debate will be selection of the Federation
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    Quarter Million Live In S'pore Rural Areas
    208 3 THE population of Sinsrapotv Rural Board areas is over a quarter of a million, the Chan man of the Rural Foard, Mi J A. Harvey states »n his annual report for last year. 'Mr Harvey reports that the area is rapidly losing its
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    X'MAS CONCERT
    34 3 The Methodist Girl's Continuation School will hold their annual Christmas Concert at 2 p.m. today in the school hall in Mount Sophia. Parents, friends, principals and teachers of other schools are invited.
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    NO CUT FOR LIGHTERMEN
    65 3 Aliout two hundred Singapore In.ban lighterage workers smiied yesterday when they learned that theli employers, the Anglo-Dutch Lighterage &lt; ompany, had decided nut to cut their wages as had previously been propose. 1. The Labour Department was informed on Tuesday that in a private negotiation between
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    GURKHAS KILL INDIAN BANDIT
    160 3 SEGAMAT, Thursday. &gt;|ADBSON, a notorious bandit leader with a $1,000 on his I I I and wanted by *he Police for murder, was among foui bandits kil'ed by the 12 Gurkha Rifles on Tuesday ifternootl in a battle with 200 bandits in the Labis area. Twenty
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    FOR SQUATTERS
    45 3 Penang. Thurs. The Settlement Council is to spend $20,000 on a squatter in Province Wellesley. Resident Commissioner Mr. A. V. Aston yesterday told the Council that another sum in the region of 20,000 to $30,000 would be available for the erection of houses.
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    REED BACK NEXT YEAR?
    62 3 Mr. George Reed. Southeast Asia Special Commissioner for the International Transport workers Federation. no ur in London, is expected to resume his duty in Singapore early next year. Mr. Reed had to return to the United Kingdom it. August this year for health reasons. He is
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    175 ARRESTED
    33 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Theie have been 175 anests in the Federation for the week ending Nov. 23: Johoro 65: Selango: 51; Penang 3: Perak 36: Negri Sembilan 8 and Pahang 12.
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    FLOOD MAROONS CARS, LORRIES
    240 3 HI'NDREDS of lorries and cats were marooned in BUuraporc yesterday afternoon, when 1% -inches of rain fell in three hours most of it between 2 and three c'ccck. The deluge, coupl? with a high tide which flooded the seadrains, caused wide-spread a nd amazingly rapid floods
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    HAJI TO HANG
    78 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Tim..;. The Fedenfttioi Court of Appeal today upheld tiie (i ath sentence passed at 'he ipoh Assizes on Haji Abdul Kadit bin Haji Alleh. 85, for tin murder ol a young Chinese woman. The Haji slashed the woman to death with a paiang while she
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    $5,000 Club Whisky Case
    59 3 Stewart Sel'ar CooK. Lz, secretary of the Singapoie Club. FullcMton Building, admitted in the First District Court yesterday to misappropriating $5,000 worth of whisky. Mr. M. Boyle, prosecuting, told the court that investigations were still proceeding. A greater sum might be involved. The case was postponed
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    JAP GOVT. HAS CHUCKER-OUT
    69 3 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO, Thurs. New Japanese speaker to the Upper House Naotake Sat'&gt; stated in his opening speech to Parliament: "I wiil spare no efforts J o eliminate acts of violence on thp floor and enable cverv member to express hi* opinion freely and let others speak
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    A HEFTY KICK
    397 4 Mil. J. C. Mathison. chairman of the Johore Planters' Association, puts on his stoutest boots, takes a short sharp run over the target, and kicks the Federation Government squarely in the seat of the pants. Good for Mr. Mathison! That's the stuft to eftrc 'em. Some of
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    THE BITTER TRUTH
    150 4 WELL, well, the Goddess of Truth has managed to worm her way into the editorial den of Pravda (meaning "Truth" in Russian). This newspaper of the Russian Communist Party has discovered something startling—something which will undoubtedly cause many a Soviet administrator, economist, historian and propagandist anxious and
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    I ENTER THE FORBIDDEN ZONE
    3412 4  -  EASTERN APPROACHES-6 IIV llritjadie»fitxroy Maclean M. P. EARLY next morning" I again visited the Tourist Base only to find that there was stilfno petrol. I had by now decided that this was probahlv a case of deliberate obsttuet on rather than mere disorganization, but as
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    The People's Postbag MR. ROBERTSON IS NOT A CAPITALIST
    638 5 The P eople's Postbag MR. ROBERTSON IS NOT A CAPITALIST l reply to Mr. Manyi. My Setter referred to Mendis' apparently adoptnot claiming, trade union and labour sympathies •he furtherance of his &gt;nal ambitions —I nop' voters of Municipal South. West will remember thi.s the time for the next .live
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    WHY YOU SHOULD SUPPORT LABOUR
    458 5 Mr. Tan Scon Kir.i, in a Iter published in your paper n November 18. aSRS Or what cod-: of 1 iw —criimnal. i vil or moiai—does Mr. Johnson has .s co: icution that anyone who is sympathetic towards labour must, perforce join toe Labour P:aty."
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    MUST TRISHAW OWNERS BE PENALISED?
    288 5 Sir. I UfUtti to expiess a grievance on be half of Singapore trishaw owners. Trishaw owners have comj'iaincd to me that, where a trishaw uriver was convicted of an offence' under Traffic Hi -ulations. the Registrar of Vehicles indiscriminately imposed a penalty of a line
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    EMPEROR WALTZ
    174 5 U is really su/konmg at tc see how disgracemembers of the Security &gt;re€ behave in public. Kecently I was cycling a group 0i friends around n Town. We were whistling a tune from the picture "Empercr lz" when a member of the r Force with a lady as
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    REAR LIGHTS
    141 5 Sir. 1 do not believe in talking too much, nor would I try to persuade the Officials concerned in the enforcement of the Parking Lights '0 &lt;hangc the regulations, but Ido want them to know th's: If a vehicle, when stationary, mu3t have parking light on" after dark.
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    GERMANS FOR ONE JAP
    80 5 Sir I believe the majority of people in Malaya would rather have one hundred Germans than one Jap visit this country. If ex enemies are allowed entrance to Malaya it should be at least in the proportion mentioned above: it would be hundred times safer for
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    TRIBUNE MAGAZINE HOW SECRET SHOULD BE THE SECRET POLICE?
    1529 5  -  STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER IK MiiSt U S THERE was a typical littleMalayan explosion last week when Mr. C. C. Tan laid before the Singapore Legs lativc Council his allegationthat the Special Branch ha I been investigating his past aqd present
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    ZIK OFTEN GOES ZAG
    526 5 SINCE the faiiuie of inmission to London, when the Colonial Secretary told him to go back to Nigeria and give the Richards Constitution a fair trial, the Honduiable Nnamdi Aziktwo—Zik for shoit—ha s kept relatively quiet. This month, however, he diowed a Hash of his old
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    GRUNT GROAN BOYS
    178 5 A.P LONDON. The frunt and g.oan bpys- Known in oolite ciicles a, inofc.-sioi.al wm,-.-lera *re going t*&gt; try to muscle their way into Lon don's sports picture. Except for a few smut! clubs London has been without the bicep benders siOC before the War. Even then it
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    THE GIRL WHO TOOK THE WEST
    159 6 Yvonne Is Terrific In Technicolour 1 went into training to bpcome a star at Uir tender age of six. Shewas too young to realize what being a star meant, but she did know th?t her mother had set a very high goal lor her
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    By Chance
    189 6 IRONICALLY enough, and despite ner excellent training for the screen, it was only by accident that she got a film break. Billy Wilder. the writerproducer, thought Yvonne might have something for the screen and referred her to his agent. The agent sent her around to the various studios
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    Stardom Comes
    240 6 RELEASE of "Salome. Wherp She Danced" created a ■wave of interest in the beguiling brunette dancer with the large blue eyes. Even Wanger and the studio were surprised by the tremendous reception accorded the new girl. She v»as elevated to stardom immediately and her name, and that of
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    206 6 BUT to go back to her childhood once .nore. Yvonne began studying lancing at six, learning to move her tinytees througn the simpler routines of tap and ballet. Late*", she added dramatics and developed her chndisn voice in school and chui :h productions. At 13, she was writing
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    368 6 WHILE in King Edwaid's High School, in Vancouver. Yvonne studied dancing to please Mama. To please herself she became active in dramatics. Following giaduation, Yvonne, who by then had becom more enthusiastic about dancing, studied terpsichore at June Roper's Vancouver School of a place that ban sent many
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    146 6 YVONNE is an exceren". nVdhr. She nas ridden tier own noise to win rodeo prizes. She did her own thrilling riding in "Calamity Jane and Sam BSBS» M "Frontier Oal" and Black Barf at High Sierras and Utah locations. This equestrienne activity is one means by which she
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    WILL GLAMOUR RETURN TO THE GAIETY?
    584 6 LUPINO LANE, dapper in blue melton overcoat and bowler hat. recently placed a roughly printed notice outside the mud-stained doors of the derelict Gaiety Theatre. It read: "Box office now open." The notice had more illusion than reality. Lane bought the famous old London
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    GROW'S OLDER
    100 6 LIFE is. growing longer jem ein c m a t i 6 ally speaking for veteran trouper Harry Shannon. In ids las* Eagle-Uon assignment, "Northwest Stampede," the actor, east as -loan Leawkrs father, was killed off in the beginning of Ihe pfc .ure. In his next role, as
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    SPOTLIGHT ON MAYO
    50 6 VIRGIN!* MAYO, former Sam Goldwyn star, Is now with United Artists where *he is making a name tor herself. Her he picture is "Red Light" in which she costars with George RaP. It is a Roy Del Ruth production, released through VJL and dne in Singapore shoiily.
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    119 6 WHEN James Haytcr. recovering from food poisoning and still feeling far from we'd, reported for duty on the "Morning Departure submarine set ac Denham Studios, London, he found his job was to prepare dm il--for his fellow "sailors" in the tiny galley. Worse was to come.
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    COLLECTOR
    35 6 A.P. FILM OMKDI \N BdMic &lt; tor has toilet tr&lt;l |-s,,imk, touartls the est:il&gt;lisl)in&lt; mi til HHI new &gt;ou!h units for &lt;li:l&lt;l r.'fufcees in Israel, II utLixsj li. .1 .!ewi&gt;h arwl in San I'rawiseo.- A.l*.
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    SCHMIDT TELESCOPE EXPLORES OUTER SPACE TO DISCOVER NEW GALAXIES
    1037 7 HASXmS TASK OF STELLAR 'CAR TOGRAPIIERS' THOUGH geographers desof ever producing a exact map of oar own t. four years from now roomers hope to have on the first definitive "Sky Atlas." readying by 1953 is a majoi pioject for the
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    NINE REASONS FOR FORGETTING
    87 7 KENT. Thursday. Mr. Harold Sears, landlord of the Horse and Groom. Stansted (Kent), complained about licences in general wnen he was summoned foi failing to renew his dog licence. He said: "I have got a lot of licences to see to and I forgot it. I'have
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    25 7 Ihe Leaning Tower of Pisa has moved a further threetenths of an inch from the perpendicular in 12 years, according to scientific measurements.
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    Paint ran works like bug 'bomb'
    201 7 N.E.A. CLEVELAND Now they've made painting easy as killing bugs. With a spray, that is. This time the spray is built right into the paint can, like an insect "bomb." All you have to do is approach whatever it is you want to paint,
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    HE MAKES HIS OWN CLOUDS
    285 7 GREAT banks cf rolling cumulonimbus we re swept up by a wind blowing across the flatlands of Eombay. Watching the changing panarama from his study window at the University, Professes M.W. Chiplonkar wished there was some mathematical method of assessing the weil-defined That being impossible,
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    THE HOME LIFE OF THE EAGLE
    764 7 There is not king ravenous about tliis bird in spite of its ferocious Appe&ratice. IN the perennial war between commercially minded egghunters (oologists) and bird watchers &lt;ornithologists», the nest-spoilers have had to ret'eat snarling. This is not because of a set of feeble protective
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      173 7 VIC FLINT hy MR-h»*l O.Mai I y and llalph Lane "ji d; ir. the two scuad car; re 7T~ o &lt;r'J&W„. ~.A1 &lt;; l tfheres no v.-crjs spot to be in then the I Ftm contused v,YSC-LF.TH£^^HHB f T ~H _Z VVHY HFV'Yoa *roit& side of trie homicide squad. trouble
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    FRENCH MOROCCO 1$ BEING COCA-COLONISED
    1084 8 DOBERT EMMET RODES s? n mor&lt;&gt; than minarets, veiled women and the fascination of Islam When as a, US lleutonant-colone 1 he landed in Casablanca in 1943 to heln liberate Morocco from the Vichy French. He saw a paradise where he could live without naving
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    TELEVISED SURGERY
    308 8 By flu? Boi/lr WATCHING a surgeon rescue a dying woman from the tentacles of cancer is en unforgettable sight. L had this experience over the weekend along witn a number of newsmen and 1 000 docto: s invited to the demonstration by the Amencan Cancel Society. It was
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    LORD HORDER'S BOX
    713 8 THOMAS. Lord I7.ord?r is a malcontent with a mission, the uncompromising damnation of the National He-: ih Service as it stands at present. The organisation he founded exactly a yeaf ago to combat Stete medicine is still fighting strongly. Lord Hordcr sees in nationalised medicine a men;
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    New Plan to Cut Bandit Supplies
    525 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Today:—Plans to control the movement of rice in large quantity in Johore arc being studied at the moment by the Chief Police Officer and the Legal Adviser of Johore who are {rafting regulations for consideration. This was disclosed in the report of
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    H.K. POLICE SMASH RING OF FORGERS
    110 9 U.P. HONG KONG. Thurs. —It was disclosed today that the police have smashed a counterfeit ring manufacturing United States banknote. Five Chinese arc beint: he'd without bail after police raids on three different premises uncovered a printing plant compete with plates tne $600,000 worth
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    'BLUE DANUBE' MIGHT BECOME RED
    105 9 A.P PRAGUE. Thurs. Then will be no backsliding amon» Czech composers, if the Com-munist-led government has anything to say. From now on. it recently decreed, every worke. who goes to a concert will understand what he is listening to. and not be confused by "anythink
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    HEATED TRAINS
    20 9 Reuter. TOKYO. Thurs. Japanese trails will be heated this winter for the fhst time since the surrender. Reuter,
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    Tragic Pillar
    82 9 One man from the rubber dinghy swam to the tower in the background and, after climbing to the top. reported that Marcel Petit, who had been stranded there ior days. had disappeared. He is presumed to ha\e been drowned' Petit climbed the tower to shoot wild fowl which
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    COMET IS FIRST BIG FIND BY PALOMAR
    212 9 A.P. PASADENA CALIFORNIA. Thursday. niSCOVERY of a the first major find of U Palomar ambitious BUrvey of outer space—was disclosed yesterday at the CalilorniM. Institute of Technology The announcement said the find was on oe*- of the first photographic pates taken in the
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    AUSTRALIAN U.S. COMRADESHIP
    52 9 U.P. SYDNEY. Thurs. Australia and the United Statai wi'l almost certainly use each Other's resources and facilities in the event of an emeigencv in the FacirV. area. accbiding to Foreign Mm ster Herbetr Evatt. He said Australia's relationship with the United States was intimate and of warm
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    NEW COMMANDER
    28 9 U.P. WASHINGTON, Thtj is. The United .States Navy announced today that Roar Admiral Richard H. Cruzen has been appointed commander of Pearl Harbour naval ba?&lt;\ U.P.
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    THE BRIDEGROOM'S LESSON
    167 9 Reuter. MANILA, Thurs.- -A threeday old Manila bride ..i:tdc a 28-year-old bridegroom cry out"loud. Reason: the latter*? life savings of $2.000 carted iwav by the young wife when her husband was away enjoying a movie. Moral: take your w'fe to the movie! Tearfully recounting hie bitter disappointment
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    RED AGENTS FINED $10,000
    194 9 BUT DON'T HAVE TO PAY A.P. WASHINGTON, Thursday. A y -S. Federal Court yesterday fined "A.aitorg, 11 the Soviet I nion Trading Agency, VS$ 10,000 for failing to register as a foreign agent in the United States but immediately suspended the fine. Charges of failure to
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    RUSK SHORTAGE TURNS DADDIES INTO NANNIES
    81 9 A.P. LONDON, Thurs. British fathers are walking ;he Moor with howling bablies these nights because of a ;-reat rusk shortage. The 10.000 n» mbers of the Nationa! Union of Small Shopkeepers complained about it yesterday m an urgent telegram to the Ministry of Food.
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    BABY SITTER HELD
    44 9 U.P. ABERDEEN. Washington. Thurs. —A 29 year old jurlk collector Alfred Leohncr was held on an open charge hew tonight, following the death of an 18-month old boy he had cared for whi'e the parents attended a movie iast night. P.P.
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    HOUR PENNIES TOOK TREVOR 2,200 MILES
    82 9 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Thurs. Thirteen year-old Trevor Shepherd had :nxpence in his pocket when he ran away from his in Wagga fN.S.W.) for thir weeks' spree through New South Wales. Queensland and Victoria. He still had 2d. when he got back home recently He hitch-hiked
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    ADMIRAL CAVE BOY A RIDE...
    96 9 BCCKS. Thurs.—Tommy. I four-year-old son of Lieut.--i Commander John W. Henry, i U.S. Navy, was killed re- cently when he fell from a car driven by Vice-Ad-f miral A. VV. La Touche Bisset. of Farnham Royal. Bucks. The admiral, friend of Commander Henry, who is
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    47 9 A.P. GLASGOW. Thurs. -Maj.- Gen Johan Beichman. com-manuei-in-chief of ne Norwegian Army said today that Norway and Scotland have much in common as seafaring, shipbuilding nations. "Norway has a very strong liaison with Scotland" Beichman tod guests at •uncheon •in the City Chambeis. A.P.
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    Along the godowns
    60 10 Lighter 706 (45); HollybaJk gt4&gt;; Karossa (Sheers Whart); Mttimt Mansiield (42/43); Sentani (40); Tlancjus (38/39); Bengal (37/38); Maetsuyoker (33/ 34); Benartv (17, IK); Burn*id&lt;(l9/20); Mantin (it),; Hoegh Silvermoon (23/24); British Priiuse (27/28); Friesland. (15/ 16); Benvenud (13/14); Bidor (10); Bruas (9); Bajah Brooke (8); St. Augustine Victory
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    RUBBER MARKET
    102 10 The rubber commodity market was yuiet yesterday and thout'u fair amount of business wtts passing there was not much change in prices. Closing prices \r\ cent* per pound were: Buyers Sellers tfo 1 RSS Dec 46 18 M 9 B No. 2 RSS Dec' 45 1/8 45 3
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    SEA MAIL
    37 10 Matin are expected from the Federation only today. Mails for the U.S.A.. &lt; anatX. ecylon."lndo-China, China. BmJ; .in Australia and Sibu will chse at noon today, whilst that ft the Federation will close at 6 p.m.
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    Tin Prices
    47 10 Price of tin in Singapore &gt;esterdav was $300,621 cents up from Wednesday's price by .50 cents. LONDON. Nov. 23: Second session— Spot £635 buyers down £645 sellers unchanged. Three months £590 buyersdown £2J. £596 sellers down £2i. Settlement pricp £642. Turno%« r urns. Market quiet.
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    Still No Response
    40 10 Despite the fact that ihe local price t»f tin metal ha/ shown small but stead&gt; improvement o\er the. last feu days, there has been no s&gt; inpathetie reartion in the tin share market. Industrials showed slight improvement.
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    Share Quotations
    810 10 Singapore. Thurs. INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 15.50 16.50 Bricks Pref. 2.40 2.50 Ord. 2.05 2.15 8.8. Petrol 34 9 35 9 B.M. Trustees 7.50 8.50 Con. Tin Smelt Pref 21/3 22/3 Ord. 15/6 16/6 E. Utd. Assur. 39.25 40.25 Est. Trust Fed: Dispensary 6.50 t .00 Fraser Neave Pref
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    FOOD FOR MALAYA – A RECORD
    238 10 FOOD FOR MALAYA A RECORD A.P. DENANG, Thursday. An all-time record in ex- ports of foodstuffs this year to Malaya is forecast by the Australian Trade Commissioner, Mr. James Payne Here to make arrangements for an exhibition of Australian products in connection with the Trade Fair scheduled in December, Mr.
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    U.S. HAS ENOUGH RUBBER STOCKS
    64 10 A.P. SAN rRANCISCO. Thuts. The United States has become self-sufficient in rubber, says Leonard K. Firestone, President of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. of California. "With our synthetic plants and a good stockpile of natural lubber, our position is secuie. Never again will we
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    India to relax export rules
    255 10 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Fri. India's export trade, totalling over Rf. 2,400.000,000 (£180,000.000) annually, will shortly be "re vitalised" by a revision of government policy. An Export Promotion Committee, constituted by the Commerce Ministry, has projH&gt;sed drastic changes in the present export regulations, in order to
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    101 10 Copra buyers bid $35 1 4 per picul f.o.b. Dec-Jan. in Sincai&lt;ore yesterday. Business was done at $35; Coconut oil sellers were still quotiiur high at $571 per pfa il f.o.b. Dec -Jan. There were do buyers in evidence for export. Coffee Rio No. 5 changed hands a?
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    TAX RELIEF
    37 10 NEW DELHI. Thurs. The Government of India have decided 10 exempt sugar lactone* from excise duty for any additional output of sugar durine 1949-50 season over the production of 1948-4?» season, it announced. &lt;GIIS&gt;. announced.
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    CURRENCY RATES
    143 10 Curiency rates now in force are as follows: Free Market Currencies A istralia 2inU 16 I n *H&gt; New Zealand 2,4 2,4 19/37 India. Ceylon and Burma 155 1 2 lob 1 I lob 3,4 Pakistan 1« T I igJ 1«» Hongkong S3 3,4 53 1.4 53 J1«
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    HARRISON AND METZ LEAD IN MANILA GOLF
    198 11 A.P. MANILA, Thursday. nAXDI Dick Metz, capitalized on three birdies three for a 2 under par, on the first nine to hold a tie with steadier J. Dutch Harrison at 71 in the opening round of the inattgural of the Philippines World Open
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    S'PORE ALL BLUES TEAM SELECTED
    123 11 SEVENTEEN men have been oted to travel to Seremban tonight to represent the Singapore All Blues rugby team in their first match against the Negri Sembilan All Blues on Saturday in the southern section of the annual AH Blues competition. Tne men are Patrick Yee.
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    JOLLILADS TO PLAY S.V.O.C.
    54 11 Following have been selected f irn i|j for Jollilads at soc»r against Standard Cacunm Oil Company today at FarreV Park 1 against the Singapore Dis•on Sunday at Fort Canning: Narayana. Mokhtur. Kader. Kasak, Ghani, V. O. Syed, Sintha, Rahman. Tobing, Hus.«ien. illah, Ahmat. Krishnasamy. V. N.
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    S.C.C. WATERPOLO TEAMS
    59 11 Two ".vater-polo matches beween the Tiger Chinese Swimrur Club and the Sinapore Bwtrlmtoiir Club tare ai ranged to be plawd in ■vS.C pool. Tanjong Rim. r Sunday, at 10.13 a.m. The *lub teams are: "A" TEAM: Tonkinson: Hampton, Van Daatselaar; Allen;, B. Mitchell. Wolters. Creighton. "B" TEAM:
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    VON NIDA, THOMSON TO PLAY HERE
    172 11 NORMAN Yon Nida, (right) the world ranking Australian goiter and his protege, Peter Thomson, who are now playing in the Phi'Hplnes Open championships at Manila, have agreed to play an 18-hole exhibition match on the Island Club Golf Course on his way back to
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    Present Boys Fail To Cash In On First Half Lead
    234 11 PLAYING on a waterlogged field at Woodsville, St. Andrews Old Boys defeated the Present Boyr, hy 16 points (two goals, a penalty goal and a try) to six points (two tries), yesterday. The Old Boys had to light every inch
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    RUGBY RESULTS
    18 11 Reuter LONDON. Thurs.—Toaay's Rugby Union County caampionship results are: Leicestershire 8 Notts. Lines Derbyshire 3— Reuter
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    WHO WILL BE SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR?
    336 11  -  By ARCHIE QUICK THE annual election of "The Sportsman of the year", organised by the "Sporting Record", is now coming along. First winner three years ago was Bruce Woodcock, with Sydney Wooderson second; the following year it was Denis Compton with $eg Harris
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    JAVA TEAM PLAY THEIR FIRST CAME TONIGHT
    132 11 BASKETBALL THE East Java Basketball team, comprising 24 players— 14 women and 10 men—arrived in Singapore yesterday lor a s.Ties of matches here and in the Federation. The team will play their first game here tonight at the Great World. The women have
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    M.C.R.C. GIVEN WALK-OVER
    59 11 MALACCA. Thurs.--Unable to raise a side for their tie win. the Malacca Recreation ClUh in the Teow Kirn Rwee Football Shield Competition, the Smut Sports Club, semi-ilnalists. conceded a walk-over. The Chinese will now meet the Malay Sporta Association inthe nr.al*on Nov. The Resident Commissioner, the Hon.
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    TOURISTS TO PLAY IN MALACCA
    63 11 MALACA, Thurs.—The Indian soccer tour If ts will play a ma;eh here heiore returning home Mr. Choc Soon tee. Hon. Secretary of the Malacca Amateur Football Association, said today. The game will be played at Kubu Park. Arrangements are hi the hands of the M.A.F.A.
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    MALACCA FIRMS' BADMINTON
    55 11 ajalacaa. Tnurs. fbaht teams frorr&gt; local commercial iums have enteied for the Conunerclal Houses Toumari. at sponsored by the Icatacca Badminton Association. t*i». v are: and Shanghai Bank. Dunlop Sports Club. riuii Sports Club. Ovanesa Chinese Bank Proaer and Neave Sporth Club. Guthrie Sports Club. Amdo French
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    ENGLISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES
    169 11 Reuter. LONDON. Wuu*.- Following 5» rootbaH nature* for Saturday ENGLISH LKAOI I. lIKST DIMSION Aston Villa v. Arsenal Blackpool v. ifaachaater v. Charlton v. Bolton Everton v. Stoke Fulhani v. Derby Huddersfiekt v. Burnley Manchester C. v. Birmingham Middlrsborough v. Chelsea. Newcastle v. West Bromwii Ii Portsmouth
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    FOOTBALL RESULTS
    15 11 A.P. LONDON. Thurs.—Today's football result is, Oxford University I—Football Assn. XI 2. —A.P
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    SETTLEMENT BOYS WIN McKERRON CUP
    169 11 THE Malay Settlement Boys' Club won the 1 McKerron Challenge Cup by beating the Katong Boys 4 Club by four games to one in the finals of the Singapore Inter-Youth-Clubs Badminton Tournament played last night at the Clerical Union Hall. Mr. P. A. B. McKerron
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    HOLY YEAR 'OLYMPICS'
    44 11 Reuter. VATICAN CITY. Thurs.— Italian sports authorities are planning a Holy Year "Olympics'' to which famous athletes of the world will be invited, it was learned here today. The Athletes are to be invited on sports merit alone, irrespective of religion.—Reuter.
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    REDS TELL MACAO, 'LET OUR TROOPS IN'
    252 12 .And Formosa Seek Split With Chiang U.P. Reuter and A.P. HONGKONG, Thursday. fENERAL Chen Keng, Commander of the ComU munist forces in Kwangtung has sent a formal request to Portuguese authorities in Macao to permit the entry of armed Communist troops, according to
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    ROYAL ENGAGEMENT
    36 12 U.P. BRUSSELS. Thurs.—Prince Charles. Regent of Belgium, was reliably reported today to be engaged to Princess Therese Marie d'Orleans et de Bragance. raster of the Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne. —U.P.
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    Arting President L.i untitled jc.., who has heen undergoing in. iual tr.alment at a pr«- v:i c nursing home is "im-1». >vinh satislartordy." He i> expected io leave the IMNM »or his privale residence in a few da\s.
    38 12 Arting President L.i untitled jc.., who has heen undergoing in. iual tr.alment at a pr«v:i c nursing home is "im--1». &gt;vin h satislartordy." He i&gt; expected io leave the IMNM »or his privale residence in a few da\s.
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    AIR CRASH PROBE
    26 12 OSLO, Thurs. The Dutch Commission appointed to investigate the air disaster here, arrived at Bornebu Airfield out side Oslo early on Thursday afternoon.—
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    SPEED-UP WARD'S DEPARTURE- U.S.
    135 12 U.P. WASHINGTON, Thursday. THE United States prodded the Chinese Commur ists today to speed up arrangements for the departure of American Consul General Angus Ward and his entire consulate staff. The American authorities asked the Communibts in Mukden to issue exit visas immediately and arrange railway
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    ATTLEE PRAISES T.U.C. LEADERS
    80 12 Reuter. LONDON. Thurs.— Minister C ement Attlee tonight called on Bricish industry to develop incentive schemes enabling workers to earn more by increasing their output. In a message issued from his official residence at 10, Downing Street, he praised the genuine and courageous leadership" of the
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    A Splendid Bit Of Work-Said Mr. MacD
    29 12 Mr. Malcolm MaeDonald, who opened the J""^ 1 of Prof, Chang tan- voag, *a J£g* uauses before one of the pHif s.
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    18 CHINESE SCHOOLS PROTEST 'Let English School Boys Learn Chinese'
    329 12 Tribune Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. EIGHTEEN Chinese Schools in Selangor today proL tested to the Senior Inspector of Schools against restricting the use of the Chinese language by English school students in Chinese afternoon and eveninc classes. The Chinese
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    HOTSPURS MEETING
    45 12 ~„,o wiM be a general meeting of the Hotspurs Sports Club on Sunday at H.OO mM. at No. 10, Alsn;, r off Estate (in front ot QeyUfflS Police Station) Soever fixture* and Other ireneral matters for the forthcoming Christinas holidays will be (MtCUiWt
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    Reds Say 'No' To Soule
    91 12 A.P. WASHINGTON. Thurs The'U.S. Army said yesterday that Communist authorities at Nanking. China, refused an exit visa lor Brlg.-Gen. Robert H. Soule. the US. military attache there. An army news officer said Soule was ordered to return to the United States about two months ago.
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    RIOTS FOLLOW SHOOTING; 20 KILLED
    119 12 A.P. PANAMA. Thurs.- -A gun battle between studecs and National police flared last night at National University. Fust reports .-aid two po'icemen and two civilians were wounded. It was the second successsive night of violence in Panama, where, two mm have laid claim to the
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    EXPELLED ENVOYS
    38 12 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. Tv&gt;o members of the French Embassy in Warsaw arrived in London by air today after being expelled from Poland for alleged spying. They were M. Aymar cc BrosslnUie Merc and M. Fernand Reyneux.—Reuter.
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    Support McKerron
    136 12 The Commissioner- j Genera!, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald called upon the public of Singapore to support Mr. P. A. R. McKerron, in the realisation of his ambitlom in Mftfctaft Singapor- the en!&lt;ura! centre ml South Lasi Asia. 11. said this while op. ninsr Ihe hxhlb'fion ol t at*
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    'DEVALUATION HAS HELPED PRODUCERS'
    308 12 A.P. —SIR JOHN HAY LONDON, Thursday. POINTING out that devaluation has lifted the Sterling price of rubber and has brought welcome relief to all producers, Sir John Hay, chairman of the Kamuning (Perak) Rubber and Tin Company today added a warning that improvement will continue so
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    Faithful To Leper Wift —Called A Hero
    241 12 U.P. BELLMORE, New York, Thursday. IN a little green and white house among the Truck Gardens of Long Island are a couple who are just about as happy and thankful this Thanksgiving Day as anyone in the United States. They are the Hornbostels,
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    JR. CHAMBER SELECTS 6-MAN COMMITTEE
    97 12 More than 30 young men of the city met yesterday at the Washington Restaurant to d scuss the formation of a Junior Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. A protem committee of six were elected to study the draft const tution wnich is to be presented
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    LONDON SHARES
    176 12 Reuter. LONDON. Thurs The London Stock Exchange recovered i.uicklv from tne shew k of the failure, of the £10,000 000 Sc.ith African loan. Prices of British Government Tunds and 'eadintr Industrials were marked lower when It was learned that underwriter* nnd neen left with 84 pnMnt, Ke overy
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    Malayan Trade Climbs
    207 12 Tiihimc Staff Ppport' r MALAYA'S adverse balance of trade rose in October to $184 3 '4 million for the first ten months of the year. The balance was $176 million in September. The unfavourable balance in October alone was $8.900.000 though Malaya increased her exports to the
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL
    237 12 SKS, V Annua! O* Church Han. MKTHoDLST i.IRL s CONTINIAIION SCHOOL a Annual Chrlal la.- Con crt 2 p/ Christmas Concert 3 \m»*H r.oad. TOtNO MXX Ml SLIM iiaiioa: Debate iruh .he v&lt; lay Teacher- Lmon on "That we should send our -hilui t. d.'.i-&lt;t to
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    CINEMA
    172 12 CATHAY: "Bride of Vezeanct wiih Paulett»- Goddard, John Lund and MacDon-ild '"arey at 11. 1 45. US, 6.45 and 9.30 P-lii-CAPITOL: "Coroner &lt;"»&gt;• k with Randolph S«oit at 11. 1.-"'• 4.0t(. 6.30 and 9.30 ©.in. AI.HA.MltK \r "Slate PepnrI iiient- Kile fe49 1.45. 4.15. and 9.31» p.m. PAVILION. "The
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    SPORT
    25 12 (tIK KKT TOIKNKY: R.A Muiaya v. R.A.F. Tens»!». u tar. sr( HOCKEY KRIENDL* •A' v. S.R.C. 'A S.C.C. {«•&gt;»»; Chinese v. Medical Bukit Tlniah Road.
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