Malaya Tribune, 14 December 1949

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    65 1 MALAYA Tribune RY TUB ¥t.UPti Tet "Tribune" S'por. LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER LN MAI AY A 1 Phons 3811/3 Naa Lk» Published simultaneously at Sin gapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh atid Penang EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTAT IVE E.
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    Meet The General
    42 1 At Tengah yesterday to meet the Command General of t he V. S. Air Force Far East, Lt. General George E. Stratemeyer (centre), were Air Mars hai F. J. Fogarty (left) and the American Consul-Genera I Mr. Langdon (right).
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    TESTS PROVE RUBBER ROADS ARE SAFER
    121 1 U.P. WASHINGTON. Tues THE Natural Rubber Bureau reported today that tests conducted over a sixmonth period by the Virginia State Highway Department showed that a small amount of natural rubber mixed with asphalt considerably improves the safety of roads. It said comparative tests on
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    TIN 'LATEST PRICES'
    92 1 U.P. LONDON. Tues. Spot tin improved £3 to £607-3 4 today in the most active business day yet in the brief existence of the London Metal Exchange, while three months, after a big jump of nearly £6 in the morning sesion. rose £1-5 8 to £574. The
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    RUSSIAN TIN
    37 1 U.P. LONDON. Tues. A metal bulletin. in an extensive analysis of such data as are available, estimated the 1940 tin production of the USSR at about 10,000 tons. Her prewar consumption was 15.000 tons. —U.P.
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    DUTCH H.C. TO INDONESIA NAMED
    88 1 A.P. THE HAGUE, Tues.—The Netherlands government announced today the appointment of its highest economic specialist, Dr. Hans M. Hirsrhfeld, as first Hiefn Commissioner to sovereign Indonesia. A communique said thai he would only hold the posit!. >n for a short time rince "cannot long be
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    LAWYER ROUNDS ON KOSTOV
    73 1 U.P. SOIIA, Tues. Former Bulgarian Vice Premier Traicho Kostov today defiantly reiterated his innocence of treason and spy charges on which his government brought him on trial. His defense attorney however, turned against him and called on him to repent. Kostov sat silent "out alert as
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    Strikes Blackout Large Areas Of London
    294 1 EMERGENCY MAY 3E DECLARED Reuter. LONDON, Tuesday. UNOFFICIAL strikes at four electric power stay tions tonight plunged large areas of London into total darkness and set Christmas candles flickering. The strikes threatened the city with serious transport, industrial and commercial dislocation. The British Government,
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    SANTA MEETS FOUR THIEVES
    53 1 A.P. ELSINCRE, Denmark. Tues —When Santa Claus ./as touring homes of poor eh ldren here with a bag full of gifts today four young men tried to rob him. But they reckoned without Santa Glaus being the local blacksmith. They know now they got the worst
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    FIFTY DROWN
    31 1 A.P. CEUTA. Spani 'i Morocco, Tues More than 50 tisher men are feared "roy/ned in the Straits of Gibraltar jp a tempest which swamped tfceir three ships last night.—A.P.
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    The King Is 54 Today
    83 1 A.P. LONDON, Tues. The guns of London will boom 62 times today in honour of the 54th birthday of the King. Today is his real birthday, the one that is celebrated quietly and privately each year by the Royal Family itself. The King is spending
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    UN SURPRISED BY LATEST ISRAEL MOVE
    86 1 U.P. LAKE SUCCESS. Tues.— United Nations quarters were taken by surprise today when Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in defiance of last Friday's General Assembly resolution on the internationalization of the Holy City. Sources close to the American delegation expressed surprise but there
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    PROBLEM CHILD IN COURT
    72 1 A.P. PLYMOUTH, Tues. The parents of an oignt-year-oid boy told the juvenile court today that he stole a car a.td drcve it iato a fence. Stole a workman'.j dinner and ate it. Broke into a farmhouse and stole some potatoes. Has been smoking cigarettes since tie
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    INDIAN M.P.?
    25 1 Reuter. LONDON Tues. Sardar K. S. B. Ahuwalla, 46-year-old business man, plans to stand for the British Parliament in the next general election.—Reuter.
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    THREE SURGEONS, HELICOPTERS WILL COME HERE SOON
    139 1 Reuter. LONDON, Tuesday—Three civilian surgeons are to go to the Far East to help deal with casualties in the campaign against Malayan terrorists, War Minister Emanuel Shinweli told Parliament today. Three helicopters should arrive in Malaya next April to evacuate the wounded to
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    DUSK TO DAWN CURFEW
    35 1 Reuter. ASMARA, Tues. A dusk to dawn curfew was clamped down by British authorities here tonight following a fresh outbreak of political terrorism All Italian and Eritrear newspapers are suspended.— Reuter.
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    CLOUDBURST DEATHS
    25 1 A.P. AMERICANA, BRAZIL, Tues. Five pecple were killed today by a cloudbjist which hit this town near Sao Paulo. Hundreds were left homeless.—A.P.
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    CHINESE REDS ENTER BURMA
    82 1 Sma 11 Groups Cross Over From Tonkin U.P. LONDON, Tuesday. gURMESE Communists, in a monitored Broadcast from Toungoo in Central Burma, said today that Chinese Communist forces already had entered Burma and had been "warmly welcomed" at a town called Sima located east of Bhamo in
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    S'PORE REQEST REFUSED
    78 1 A.P. NEW DELHI, Tues, The Delhi Municipal committee has turned down a request from Singapore for a bronze statue of Queen Victoria which stands in a Delhi Park. The Committee views British statues with some coolness, but it voted 11 to 10 to retain Queen Victoria. Most
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    SECRET SERVICE BOSS WILL CURB REDS IN AFRICA
    322 1 U.P. LONDON, Tuesday.—Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones is expected to make a statement in Parliament this week on recent attacks on British colonial governors and riots in colonial tenitories reportedly inspired by the Communists. An attempt on Chief Justice of the British
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    BLOCKADE RUNNERS
    31 1 U.P. HONG KONG. Tues. Admiral Liv Kwang-kai, Commander of the First Naval Squadron enforcing the Nationalist blockade, charged thaL British warships were convoying merchantmen "within Chinese territorial waters." —U.P.
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    TICK TACK MEN' EXHAUST POLICE?
    146 1 A.P. MELBOURNE. Tues. Australian police are waging a war of nerves and patience against outlawed baccarat schools, whose proprietors, driven from city premises, are planning to open Joints in suburban homes. Baccarat men, confident that the card game of French origin will never be eradicated
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    Mr. Tan Wants Probe On Child Feeding Centres
    207 1 Tribune Staff Reporter MR. Tan Chin Tuan, member for the Chinese Chamber of Commerce will ass at the next meeting of the Legislative Council when will government appoint a special committee to investigate the present Child Feeding Scheme. It will be recalled
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    MALAYA MEDAL?
    47 1 A.P. LONDON. Tues. Prime Minister. Mr. Clement Attlee, replying to Lord John Hope. Conservative. Midlethian. told the House of Commons that the matter of granting a general service medal to the forces engaged in fighting the bandits in Malaya is at present under consideration. A.P.
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    JAPAN WINS
    27 1 A.P. MANCHESTER. Tues. Japan's cotton piece goods exports topped those of the United States and the United Kingdom in the second qua-t--er of this year.—A.P.
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    Gen. Pai's French Parleys
    51 1 STOP PRESS A.P. HONGKONG, Tues. Mrs. Pai Chung-hsi said today her husband, a Chinese Nationalist general, hopes to save 30,000 troops by moving them through Indo-China to Hainan Island. She told the China Mail that Pai has gone to Hanoi, Indo China, to negotiate with French
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    WATERLESS FRIDAY
    27 1 A.P. NEW YORK, Tues. City officials asked eight million New Yorkers to go without water all day next Friday to conserve the dwindling wat?r reserves.—A.P.
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    TEACHERS EXPELLED
    24 1 U.P. WARSAW, Tues. Poland today ordered 11 'it the French Instituce at Warsaw to leave ;he count r y within 48 hours.—U.P.
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    Walking Up The Aisle
    47 2 Tnfr and Mrs." Lav Thian Siong were married at the Straits Chinese Methodist Church. Kampong Kapor Road yon Saturday. A reception was held in the church J hall. The bride was Miss Tan Ah Lvi, a teacher in the I airfield Girls' School.
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    BUY A FLAG AND HELP A CAUSE
    392 2 Cheshire Nursing Home Day TODAY Singapore is holding a Flag Day for the Cheshire Nursing Home. which is dedicated to the service «f stricken soldiers of the war. Founded by war hero and humanitarian. Groun Captain Leonard Cheshire, the Horne —also known as
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    FEDERAL AID NOT ENOUGH -MENTRI BESAR
    97 2 KUALA LUMPIR, Tues. The allocation from Federal funds to Tiengganu for 1950 is insufficient for the improvement of the State, said Tengku Mohammed ibni AlMarhom Sultan Ahmad. Mentri Besar. at the Budget meeting of the Tiengganu State Council on Sunday. He revealed that one
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    Braddell Piles Up The Points
    134 2 FURTHER legal arguments were advanced to the three judges of the Full Court ol Appeal, yesterday. by Sir Roland Braddell in the appeal by EL H. Battat against a series of convictions under the Finance Regulations lor transactions in foreign exchange. Sir Roland Braddell on
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    UMNO CHIEF TO CHOOSE FLAG?
    45 2 The Pontian I Johore* District Branch of UMNO, want the choice of the Federation Flag to be left to the UMNO President. The Branch also wants a seat for UMNO on the Federal Legislative Council and the Johore State Council.
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    I SAW SISTER STABBED— Inquiry told
    225 2 PHANDRAVENI, an Indian girl aged nine, told the Third Police Court Magistrate yesterday that she saw Veerapillai Saminathan. 53. stab her sister. Singaram Sivagamy—first in the throat, and then on the right side and left, side of her body. Chandraveni said that she was
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    RIDER BEATEN UP
    37 2 An Indian and a Malay tried to rob a trishaw rider last night after directing him to Kampong Putu Pasir. They beat up the man who managed to run away. The robbers got nothing.
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    GAOL FOR THREE MORE BUSMEN
    138 2 THREE more Singapore 1 Traction Company bus j conductors were sent to gaol by the Second Poiice Magistrate yesterday, when found guilty of breach of trust of fares they had collected. They were ¥ayah bin Bakar, Tan Kah Im. and Koh Tee Seng. Yayah, charged
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    Wants to startschool of Ballet
    119 2 By The Canton MISS MAI'DREXE YAP, 24--year-old daughter of the Singapore banker Mr. Yap Pheng Geek and Mrs. Yap. returned yesterday in the R.M.S. Canton after two and a half years of learning the ballet in the Phyllis Biddels school of dancing in London. Maudrene.
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    —back from leave
    29 2 DEPUTY Commissioner of Pclie<\ Mr. W. J. Parks, Mrs. Parka and their two- j year-old sen Nicholas, who is back after eight months leave in England.
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    —off to Kuching
    32 2 BISHOP N. E. Cornwall, the new bishop of Borneo, J who is in Singapore at the I moment, will leave for Kuching on Saturday in the s.s. Angby. I
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    S. I. T. CHIEFS DISCUSS RENT CUTS TODAY
    292 3 T Tmtees ot the Singapore Improvement Trust meet this afternoon to discuss v» CU tL s in n lUs lor P r °Perties owned by the Trust. A memorandum drawn up by Mr .1 M. Fraser. manager of the Trust, says that
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    PETROL RATION
    36 3 For the sake ol convenience in making up books of petrol coupons, it has been decided to slightly vary the number of coupons to be issued to private car owners in the coming quarter.
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    Probe In Gas Works?
    75 3 A Municipal Committee Which meets tomorrow will be asked te. decide whether there ahoald be v probe into the allege*! grievances of the Kal'ang Gas Woiks employees. Mi. Pat Johnson (Lab. North) called for a probe a few months ago after a tense Saturday aftanrtea in
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    BANK HOLIDAY
    23 3 It is officially announced that Saturday. December 31, 1949, Will he a Bank Holiday. Government offices, however. Wil! not be closed.
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    258 Win Awards In Batik Against Terror
    197 3 TWO hundred and fifty eight names appear on the Army s second Special List of Honours for Operational Services in the Malayan campaign. Included are names of two men. who have been killed, and that of the late Brigadier M.D. Erskine. Commander of
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    GOC THANKS BREWERIES
    44 3 Major General C. H. Bouther, GOC Malaya District, has thanked the Chairman of the Board of the Malayan Breweries for his offer of a pint bottle of Anchor beer to very member of the Army in Malaya as a Christmas present.
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    FLAG OFFICER
    42 3 Rear Admiral H. W. Faulkner, C.8.E.. D.5.0.. who has been appointed Flag Officer. Malayan Area, and Admiral Superintendent, Singapore, in succession to Rear-Admiral C. Caslon. C.8.. C.B.E. will arrive here on or about February 7. 1950, by the s.s. Corfu.
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    REVELLERS BALL
    34 3 The Gay Revellers Club will hold their annual Christmas Ball on December 17. at the Adelphi Roof Garden. Tickets are available at the door to those who have not already purchased them.
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    AMERICAN GENERALS LAND AT TENGAH
    146 3 MAJOR-GENERAL George E. Stratemeyer. Command General of the Defence Command ot the United States Army and Major-General Charles A. Willoughby. Chief of Intelligence to General Mac Arthur. the Sup reme Commander of the Al ies in the Pacific, arrived at leugah in an American Air
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    MYF CHIEF
    16 3 Mr. Richard Tay bag been elected president of the Telok Aver M.Y.F. for 1950.
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    WEAR AND TEAR
    21 3 Mr. Gerald Hawkins will be "Talking of Erosion in Malaya.-' over Radio Malaya, Singapoie. at 10.00 o'clock tonig.it.
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    NEW RANK TITLES FOR GURKHAS
    104 3 The King has approved bow tank titles for Gurkha commissioned officers and King's Guikha officers who an- serving with the Biigadc of Guikhas in FARELF. Gurkha commissioned officers equivalent with British j office! s will he Lieutenant (G.C.O.t, Captain (G.C.O.i and Maior < G CO.
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    JELEBU AMBUSH WELL LAID-SAY POLICE
    326 3 SERE MBAN. Tues. —A spokesman from Police Headquarters here today said that the ambush at Jelebu Pass where 16 policemen were killed and four seriously wounded by bandits yesterday, was well arranged. The position had been prepared in anticipation of a military convoy proceeding to
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    THE DOOMED TRISHA
    594 4 IF we had music halls in Malaya, the trishaman would be a stock joke—always good for a laugh, like the proverbial mother-in-law. He has the traffic sense of a demented chicken. There is not a motorist in the country who does not heap curses on his happy-go-lucky
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    WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I INVITED THE GENERAL TO PUT HIS HANDS UP
    2940 4 EASTERN ißv BKIGADIEB i FITZKOY MAI LEAN HI. P. < APPR OA CHES-2S IT now only remained to fix the day. This was done after a further exchange of signals with G.H.Q. Baghdad and with the Foreign Office
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    BRITISH M.P.s ARE HARD UP
    345 5 Many End £1,000 A Year Too Little LONDON, Tuesday. ijANY members of the British Parliament are now facing the urgent problem of how to live on their official salaries of £1,000 sterling a year. With present high living costs, a considerable number who have no
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    BACK HOME
    50 5 Reuter. NEW DELHI. Tues.—About 50.000 Indians have return!ed to India from Burma since the commencement of j the civil war in that coun- try. 12.000 of them destitute. Dr. B. V. Keskar. Deputy I Minister for External Affairs, said in reply to a question in parliament here. —Reuter.
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    EAST-WEST END 1949 WITH X'MAS PARTY
    59 5 The East-West Society finish the 1949 programme with a Christmas party at the British Council Hall tomorrow. There will be dancing, games a musical interlude by Mr. Mrs. Otto Foorman. The Society's first meeting of the new year will be held on Thursday, Jan.
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    Stedfasters Hold Dinner
    69 5 The Re-Union dinner and dance of the Sure Stedfast club will be held this Saturday, at the Headquarters, 77 Prinaep Street, at 7.30 p.m. It is hoped that as many Old Boys of the Boys' Brigade will give the function their support. Those wishing to attend this
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    BROKE HIP, SEEKS DAMAGES
    72 5 Mr. KG. Burne. 46. exmanager of Transport and Stoiage Ltd., yesterday claimed special (linages of $3,506 and an unspecified sum as general damages from the Sea w Hotel, Ltd.. in the High Couit. Mr. Burne who walked into the court with a limp said that while
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    DEATH OF DR. A.H. KEUN
    44 5 MALACCA, Tues. The death took place yesterday evening at the Malacca Genelal Hospital of Dr. Alfred Havelock Keun, a prominent Malacca resident, at the agre of seventy-five. The funeral took place today at the Christian Cemetry at Bukit Serendit.
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    Ten Guineas To Make Sure She Wouldn't Be Buried Alive
    159 5 A.P. LONDON, Tues.—The will of the Dowager Countess one of Britain's richest aristocrats, disclosed yesterthat she set aside ten urn as to make sure she would not be buried alive. Here executors were instructed to pay the sum out of
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    'OH, WHY WERE WE BORN?'
    85 5 A.P. LONDON, Tues —One person in every twelve in London's \3met Tooting District wishes he had never been born. One in 25 is undecided. Reason the horro' s of the atoimc age. The Reverend Kenneth Budu. Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, determined this from a
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    You're Drunk, Polly Tells Police
    100 5 A.P. CANTERBURY, Tuesday. Canterbury policemen got the Bird yesterday from saloon keeper Tim Banham. It was after legal closing hours for Banham s Riding Gate inn. But lights were on over the bar, and policemen walking past heard sounds of revelry from within. They knocked
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    NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS FETED
    58 5 STOCKHOLM, Tues.-Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and Crown Princess Louise, entcitained the Nobel Prize winners in Science at a gala banquet last night. Dr. Hideki Yukawa. Japanese winner of Physics Prize this year, had his place between Mrs. William Giauoue, wife of the winner of the Chemistry
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    PLEA FOR WEEKLY PAY TO AVOID DEBTS
    106 5 Reuter. COLOMBO, Tues. Ceylon's white collar workers are urging a week'y pay to fight indebtedness. This proposal is welcomed by their housewives as, they feel, it would have the effect of inducing a habit of economy by avoiding credit purchases. Some business and
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    SO BOY WINS ART SCHOLARSHIP
    198 5 Nude Women Do Not Scare Him: A.P. WARRINTON, England, Tuesday. Sixteen-year-old Gordon Slater, stepped bravely forward yesterday and declared that nude women do not scare him at all. So he gets the Art Scholarship refused by his friend Brian Porter aged 17, who holds the
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    Shark Damaged His Net, So He Killed It-With Knife
    131 5 Reuter-AAP. DARWIN, Tuesday. Because he was annoyed with a shark for damaging his fisning net. Ted Fitzgerald, 25, a Darwin man, killed it singe-handed with a diver's knife. His friends say Fitzgerald, who among boats on the water-front, is unafraid of
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    HE SCOTCHED THE SNAKE
    51 5 Walking barefooted, seven-year-old Tommy Mackie of Black Springs. New South Wales, trod on a four-foot long tiger snake. He saved his life by standing firmly on the snake's head until help arrived. With the snake coiled round his leg, he called to his father who killed
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    CHINESE KETUAS IN PERAK
    122 5 IPOH. Tues. A scheme for appointing Chinese Ke tuas and committees in certain areas where Chinese predominate has been working successfully in Perak. the Sultan stated in his address at the budget meeting of the Council of State today. The scheme, if required, would be extended
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    Church Council Youth Chief Here On Visit
    86 5 Visiting Singapore this week will be the Director of the Youth Department of the j World Council of Churches, > Geneva —Miss Jean Fraser. She is returning from the J Eastern Asia Christian Con- j ference which has just con- j eluded in
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    'ALI BABA' PANTOMINE THIS YEAR
    95 5 Radio Malaya will be presenting this year's Radio Pantomime. "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Wednesday, Dec. 21 at 6.46 p.m. sharp. There are 600 seats available for members of tho public. There will be an admission charge of
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      252 5 REDUCE SAFELY If you havo large abdomen, thick ankles, double chin, fat neck, shoulders, hip, etc use ALU ALIA Cream which reduces the oarts on which 't is applied. $2.50. We have also THYGLOID Reducing Cream and TBTCnLOID Tablets to reduce stout men or women. 52.00 $4.00. HARI CO., (P.
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      21 5 Modern way of keeping the home brief lit. clean S hen I thy MANSION HYGIENIC WAX POLISH FOR FLOORS.FURNITURE t LINOLEUM
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      132 5 LLL ABXER by Al Cap* IDOnTminDVOOR )WS SHOULD -BUT— V-AMD YOU ARC. IV THE MORE I SEE. OF MIM, I WANT A STONE- "L^MQTHER" NOT LISTENING 7 l?-WHEKI THAT'S SUPPOSE?-I'VE THE MORE! REPULSIVE. DRILL., A COLD CHiSEL, IN-LAW TO ME—BUT I CAN JUST A*< BEEN GOING AROUND YOU GET-AND SPE.AKING
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    MORE CUTS IN $ PURCHASES NEXT YEAR
    368 6 MORE CUTS IN PURCHASES NEXT YEAR NEXT year's dollar imports into the United Kingdom will be cut to about three quarters of the figure for 1948, says the latest number of the British Treasury Bulletin for Industry. The total for 1948 was 1,620 million dollars as compared with $2,270 million
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    Along The Godowns
    53 6 Sanpola (44>; Sedenak <4<> in. Sylvurtold (88 39); Antilochua (35 36); Sloterdijk i 33 34); Ferndale (1718): S.H.B. Craft (21 Kutsanf.' (25 26>. TaTcsan*; 27 28); Kustbns (29 30): Pirdhana (15 16): Shillony (13 11 >; President Monroe (11): Glengarry (8 0): Tyndareus »6 7); ShillOßg (1
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    SEA MAIL
    44 6 Mails are expected from Boutfa Africa, and the Federation today at the G.P.O. Mails from North Borneo. Labuan. Brunei. Miri. Indo China, and Horn; Kont; will (lose at j noon and for the Federation at I 6 p.m. loday at the G.P.O.
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    TIN UP
    49 6 After a prolonged drop the price of tin jumped by $3.62 i cents on the picul to $288-12| cents per picul yesterday. LONDON Dec. 12: Spot £604 buyers Unchanged. Three months £565?. Up £1 Turnover: 50 tons Second Session: Spot £604—Unchanged Three months Unchanged Turnover 40 tons.
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    TINS STILL HESITANT
    39 6 SINGAPORE, Tues. Most of the business in the share market continued to be written in industrials. The increase in the local price of tin *oday had a pleasing effect bul buying Si shares is still hesitant.
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    Share Quotations
    860 6 Singapore. Tues. INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 2.15 2.25 Alex. BMckj Pref. 2.40 2.50 Old. 2.17 225 8.8. Petiol 33/- 34, 6 B.M. Trustees 7.50 8.50 Con. Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/3 Ord. 15 3 16/6 E. Utd. Assur. 39 25 40.25 Est. Trust Fed. Dispensary 6.50 7.00 Fraser Neave
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    RUBBER MARKET
    98 6 THE rubber commodity market was quiet throughout yesterday with moderate business passing and prices slightly lower than on Monday: Closing prices in cents per peuntl were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 RSS f.o.b. Jan. 48 7/ s 49 No. 2 RSS f.o.b. Jan. 484 48'No. 3 RSS f.o.b. Jan.
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    Pepper Tax Still Vague
    120 6 U.P. NEW YORK. Mon Black peppei prices eased slightly towards the end of last week on slackening demands. A few quotations fiom India weie slightly lowci. It was undctstood by ttaders that the tax policy of the Indian Government is atlV not settled, and that the
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    CURRENCY RATES
    206 6 currency iai<-- now in Beret are as follows; r'rer Markrl 4' n r rriieie*. HefMag 11 yine V i O.I». T.T. IM». M It «7«. <».i g LoBdOO 2 4 1 16 2/4 3 16 2 4 7,32 2 4 32 2 4 1»; Australle j 11 t/u
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      687 6 shipping i MANSFIELD CO. LTD., incorporated In Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE Carrier*' optloc to proceed via other porta to load and discharge cargo. SaiMngs for LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW CONTINENTAL PORTS "Antilochus" .sails for Colombo. Tangier. Casablanca. Havre Liverpool Dec. 17 "Phrontls" sails for London, ilolland and Hamburg Dec 25 "Tyndareus"..sails fcr
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      304 6 THE HO HONG S.S. CO. (1932) LTD 65, CIItXIA STREET. PHONE 3944-6 (Incorporated in Singapore) PASSENGER FREIGHT SERVICES PALEMBANG, DJAMBI, PAKAN BAROE RENGAT and BAGAN SI API APL "HONG ANN" Sails for Djambi "HONG SOON" Sails for Rengat, Djambi We. I<> "HONG TAT" Sails for Pakan Baroe Dec. 19 •"HONG
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      662 6 IoUSTEAD CO., LTD SINGAPORE Lloyds Agents In Singapore, Ticket Agents For Malayan Railways GLEN LINE ArmPTING FOR ADEN, LONDON, ANTWERP, ROTTER--4 DAM, HAMBURG. Due Sail* GLENCAPRY (Calls Genoa) Gdn. 8/9 Dec. 16 RADNORSHIRE Dec. 25 Dec. 50 GLENGYLE (Calls Genoa) Jan. 11 Jan. lo MUM UK FUK STRAITS, lIONGKONO, A&U
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    PHOL IS HERE AGAIN
    273 7 Friday's Boxing DOKFR-face Nai Phol r Prapadaeng, the Sia mese slugger whoa whirlwind first round attack on Java's Njoo In August is still remembered by Singapore fight fans, has returned to the Colony— this time to fight Speed Cabanella of Manila. The contest will be held
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    F.A. CUP REPLAY
    27 7 A.P. LONDON. Tues. Today's football results arc: Football as sociation Cup. second round replay. Oldham Athletic 0 Crewe Alexandra 0 (after extra time). —A.P.
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    EASY WIN FOR PEP
    33 7 A.P. ST. LOUIS. Tues. Willie Pep, featherweight champioa. punched out an easy 10 round non-title decision over Harold Dade last night. Pep weighed 130 lbs, Dade 126 3 4.—A.P.
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    HOCKEY CANCELLED
    37 7 The hockey match which was scheduled to have been played on the S. C. C. padang yesterday, "etwren the S. C. C. and S. H. B. Police was cancelled. owing to been ground too wot
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    PENGS RETAIN DOUBLES TITLE
    719 7  -  MARJAN LEADS SHELL TO EASY VICTORY By SHUTTLE CINGAPORE'S triple badminton champion, Wong Peng Soon (Mayflower) added another feather to his cap when he and his party-mate Teoh Peng Hooi successfully defended their local Men's Doubles title against youthful challengers Sng Haw Pah and Quek Keng
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    Mitri Keeps European Title
    149 7 Reuter. PARIS. Tues. Tiberio Mitri. Italian champion, re i tamed his European middle- weight title here tonight when he easily outpointed Jean Stock, French champion. I over 15 rounds. Mitri was on top throughout most of the fight. He delighted a crowed of 18,000 with his
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    Lan Johnson Causes Transvaal Collapse
    182 7 JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday. TRANSVAAL, after appearing to hold the advantage from the start of the match, lost by 15 runs to the Australians here today when their three-uay match came U a speedy end. Faced with the prospect of being the first side *o defeat an
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    Scoreboard
    107 7 Reuter. AISTRALIAN Ist Inns. St. 2nd Inns. H>4. TRANSVAAL Ist. Innings tM for 9 dccl. TKANSVAAL 2nd. Inns. K. Rowan Miller h Johnson 11 I'irkerill Ibvt b Walker 0 •Mitchell v Moroney h .Miller 4 Heebie Ibw I» Johnson 10 Koothman Morris b Johnson 0 Winslow r Morris b
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    HIGHEST SCORE BY WEST ZONE
    87 7 Reuter. POONA, Tues. The I four-day match between the Commonwealth cricket tour ists and West Zone today ended in a draw here. Final scores were: Com monwealth Ist Innings 611 (W. Allen not not out 209, F. Worrell 165, F. Freer 100. G. Pope 50);
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    3 New Swim Records
    100 7 A.P. SYDNEY, Tues. THE Sydney swimmer, Frank O'Neill, beat the Australian 380 yards medley record today in four mins. 0. S.secs during; the Australian championships in the Olympic Pool. He easily bent the previous record held by Ralph \Yiight, an American, of four mins. 6-4 nock,
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      261 7 THE SARAWAK STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. (Incorporated in Sarawak) Weekly passengers freight services to Kuching Rejang River Ports and Bintulu (with transhipment at Kuching) Due Sulla "ANGBY" for Kuching In Tort 2 p.m. Dec. 17 BELAGA for Sarikci, Binatang, Sibu ___'n Fort 10 a.m. Dec 17 'RAJAH BROOKE' tor Kuching Dec.
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      316 7 NOTICES FRENCH STOCKING REPAIRING MACHINE. i,500 stitches per minute, 250 dockings can be repaired a day. Easy to operate, highly remunerative for the repairer. Price: $790. SOUTH SEA CO., 77, South Kridge Koad, Singapore. Tel. Nos. 8401 7367. THE BANKRUPTCY ORDINANCE (Chapter 45) In the High Court of the Colony
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      634 7 Re MOTIBHAI SAMALBHAI PATEL, Deceased All persons having any claims against the estate of the abovenamed deceased, late of Svviakan, British North Borneo, who d'ed at Sandakan, since May, 1945. r.rc required to send particulars of their claims in writing to the Public Trustee, Singapore ,whc is tne Adnvn strator
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      639 7 SITS: VACANT Vacancies exist for pupil nurses The next course in t he Training School Commences 3rd January, 1950. Candidates must be of good education (Senior Canbridge preferred) Mid bctwcc.i the ages of 17 1 25. TJie actual period of training is three years preceded by a trial per ud
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      695 7 SITS. VACANT Tho Municipal Commissionera of thr Town of Singapore invite applications for filling two vacant posts of Charge Engineer for shift duties at their Power Station. The pre sent installed capacity 1:* 37,000 Kws. but extensions an* in hand to increase this caps city to 87,000 Kws. Applicants must
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    S'PORE DISTRICT M.Y.F. PRIZE GIVING ON SAT.
    198 8 rF. prists for the Singapore District Methodist Youth Fellowship Annual Tournament '"or 1949 in badminton. table-tennis and chess wUI ba distributed at the Chfl«UP»a Fanev Dress Social on Saturday at 7.30 p.m. at the Paya L-har .u.Y.F. so ial Hall. The following were
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    HOTSPURS 'A' v. GUTHRIES
    72 8 Hotspur* s.c "A" xi will meet Gathrit's B.C at a roecai on Friday at the tieyiang stadium. The team to represent the Spurs A" will be pi< ked irom the fol'owing: W. Skinner. Dollah Hamid. Luke Lopez. Kirn Hian (Capt.), Paul Thomas. Syed Aii Alsaroft. Shmbhu
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    Mystery Plane Drops Arms
    97 8 Reuter-AAP. BATAVIA, Tue". Dutch officials arc investigating report* that a uynterious olac.c Da ota aii craft dtopped heavy cylinders, presumably containing w to terrorist bands in the mountains 00*1 rjamir. West Java, last wee'e. Secutitv efficers in Sumatra and Jc»a*h.ive been engaged for some time in
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    SYDNEY FIRE
    40 8 Reuter. SYDNEY. Tues. Two hundred new cars, station-wagons, trucks and machinery worth more than A£200,000 were destroyed today when fire swept through the Dominion Motors Limited assembly plant, opened "only a few weeks ago. at Waterloo Sydney. Reutei.
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    CONSTABLE DIES
    42 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— A police van c o 1 li d ed with a bus at the mileI stone Kotta Tinggi Lembong Road yesterday. A police constable* who was; seriously in- jured, died on tne way to the j hospital.
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    HUNGER STRIKE OFF
    34 8 Reuter. TOKYO. Turn. Japanese I Government rail worker* i today called off a hunger j strike after two of their memI bets were repor ted in a criti- cal condition. -Reuter.
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    NATIONALIST TROOPS SURRENDER AT TONKIN BORDER
    417 8 Reuter and U.P. PARIS. Tuesdiy. THE French Press Agency today I hiring white flags have made contact witn the Chinese.Tonkin frontier, annouiu ed here (oat any Chinese Government awthorlttCl J .„£X retre it b?for? the advanNationalists troops entering Indochina in their retre.u rincr Communist*
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    No Opposition From Australia On Mao
    285 8 Reuter and U.P. London. Tuesday. OFFICIAL opinion here does not anticipate any opposition to the recognition of the Chinese Comm mist regime from the new Australian or New Zealand governments. The new prime ninisters of both governments ;<re known to be fully in support
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    PILOT HELD
    36 8 U.P. HONG KOisG, rues.--The I Civil Air Transport CoipoiaI tion said today that James McGovern. American pilot of tne plane which disappeared a woe.t ago, is being aeld by Vietnam guerillas in IndoChina. U.P.
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    LONDON SHARES
    162 8 Reuter. LONDON, Tu«e. The Londrtn stock exchange was lifeless today. End of account MP trading period brought the usual contango business and much of the attention of dealers was iriven j to carryover of outstanding barI Bains into the new account. j Prices where changed showed a drift
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    CRIPPS WOOS U.S. CAPITAL
    81 8 A.P. NEW YORK. Tics. Almost j simultaneously with the news that a second British Comj monwea'lh Australia has rejected socialism comes word from Sir Stafford Ctipps that i Americans can invest in Bn- j tish private enterprise without I t fear of nationalization. Sir Stafford, virtual
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    BEVIN OFF ON 27th
    36 8 U.P. LONDON. Tins. The Foreign Office announced today that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin will leave on December 27 for the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers conference opening in Colombo. Ceylon, on January i*. U.P.
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    25 DIE IN DAKOTA CRASH IN PAKISTAN
    192 8 Reuter. KARACHI Tuesday. ALL 21 passengers and a crew of lour were beA Jieved killed when a Dakota crashed 36 miles from here last night, a Civil Aviation Department official said today A Defence Ministry tpor man said two Paki tani Generals were
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    AIR DISASTER: 19 ESCAPE DEATH IN U.S.
    108 8 WASHINGTON. Tuesday. Nineteen of 23 persons aboard a Capital Airlines DC-3 transport miraculously escaped ucatn yesterday when the pilot daringly crashlanded the plane on the Potomac River aftei missing the National Airport. The pilot, co-pilot and two passengers. including a woman, were kiMed.
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    QUIRINO WINS
    23 8 A.P. MANILA, Tues. —A joint session of Congress today declared Elpidio Quirino President and winner of the Novemebr 8 election. A.P.
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    GRENADES FLUNG AT B.I.S.
    172 8 Reuter. ASMARA. ERITREA, Tues. —A crowd of Britreani threw five hand g en: ides at tin* main gate Of the British Information Seivice offices here last night. None of the grenades exploded. The information service offices aie in the Via Lorenzini, in the centre of Asmara.
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL
    145 8 METHODIST CONFERENCE: 55th Session of Malaya Annual Conference at 4.30 p.m. at AH. Barker Roau. Singapore. YOLTH LEADER*' TRAINING (OIHSK: Mr. T. Ea-ut s Hughes to speak on lessoris of the course Social Welfare Dept. CHINESE YMC'A: S. J.A.B at 107 Selegie Road at 6 p.m.
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    CINEMA
    168 8 CATHAY: "Alia.« Nick Deal" with Ray Milland and AudiVy Totter at 11 a.m., 1.45, 4.15. «I ■> and 9.30 p.m. t A PHOL: "Und.r Pwo Flags' with Ronald Colman and Claudette Colbert al 11, 1.45. 4, t>.:»o and 9.30 p.m. REX; "House of Strangars with Edward Robinson and Susan
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    SPORT
    65 8 RIGGER: Police v. 223 B.O.D. —Thomson RoaU. RAF v. R.N.— Changi (quadrangular tourney» SCC "A" v. Shell SCC. HOCKKY TOI'KNEY: Polire v. Snerwood Foresters Thomson Koad: C.S.C. v. 223 B.O.D. St. George's Road. SRC (R<>ls> v. G.H.Q. FAREL.F Tan<lih. FRIENDLY HOCKEY: S'i»ore Women's H<'key Assn. trial SCV.; SRC "A"
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    Public Demand To Armour Plate Police Vehicles
    382 8 A.P. KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday 4 public demand for armoured plating protee- Mon for Police vehicles follows yesterday s ambush. 14 miles from Seremban, which resulted in Ihe death of 16 policemenjmd injury to nine others. The Mentri Besar of Negri Sembilan told reporters
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    HERESY HUNT
    32 8 U.P. BUENOS AIRES, Tues. 4 Police pressed an intensive search last night for Atilio Cattaneo, opposition member, j who accused President t J eron of enriching himself in office. -U.P.
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    DON'T WASTE PUBLIC MONEY, SAYS STANLEY
    96 8 Reuter. PARIS. Tues. Sydney Stan!e\. key witness in the Lynskey Tnbunal. cleaied up a 12-hour myslei> about his movements today when he told Reuter "I am not even dreaming or going to England. He said he had a nineminute chat" with a Scotland Yard
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    Three State Matches For Varsity
    168 8 HOCKEY TUUH interstate bNfcd matches arranged by the Singapore Hockey A.sso«ia tion will be played in the fJ*IMJ Uiis week-end in aid ot the I ni\ersit> of >lala\a Kndi» ■Veal Fuud. They are: Frida> Singapore Malacca; >aturda\ Malacca; Sundax Singapore Selangor. The first two gani
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    PRESTOS BUYS FORBES FOR £10,000
    87 8 A.P. LONDON, Tues. PlietWJ North End, the Engh*»» league second division football club, bought for reputed £10,000 Bill Forl>cs. the Wolverhmnpton Wanderer* wing half ha eh or insidr forward. Forbes, 25, plays teal left half, because of the brilliance of BUly Wright, the England captain,
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    AWARD TO CHARLES
    35 8 A.P. New York. Tues. The New York Boxing Writers Assn iation yesterday award ed the Edward J. Neil mem orial boxing plaque for IH° to National Boxing Association heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles.—A.P.
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