Malaya Tribune, 15 December 1949

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    62 1 MALAYA Tribune I let "Tnbone" S'pon r l LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAY A Phone 3811/3 Mtoj Lm Published simultaneously at Sin gapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang EIGHT PAGE* SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1949 PKICK TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON h'EPRESEXTATIVE E. Maurice Glover, ilnlaya
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    HIRE PROTESTS AGAINST S'PORE LAWYER TO BAR C'TTEE
    268 1 HIRE PROTE STS AGAINST S'PORE LAWYER TO BAR C'TTEE MlflTnv B 4 Tribune Staff Reporter mVtt4 4 U in" ,rC M a l*ter to the Singapore Bar Committ.e mcnestmg against the part played by Mr. P F de Sou/a Sinra. !ran 8 th of "Si police 000 < .?.V..tnm.« capture
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    FORMOSA: PART OF JAPANESE EMPIRE
    118 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Wednesday. Secretary of State Di BO Acheson declined speculation at his press confeicnc 1 todny when asked America's attitude toward tho future of Formosa, to which Cum so Nationalist foices h.ue retired fiom the mainland. Asked whether the United States would regard Foi
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    EXPLOSION : 6 DIE
    28 1 EXPLOSION 6 DIE Reuter. SIOUX CITY. lowa. Wed. —At least six people were killed and 100 iniured in an explosion at the Swift meat packing pant hereto.'ay. Reuter.
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    Power Workers Agree To End Strike
    112 1 LONDON, Wed Gene ritl agreement to end the London power strike which had disrupted transport and industry and blacked out wide aieas of the city was reached tonight. Day- ong meeting between leaders of 3,000 power stations workers and union officials resulted in a
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    AUSTRALIA: TOTAL VOTES
    53 1 A.P. SYDNEY. Wed.—The total votes cast in the Australian General Election were disclosed today as: Liberal 1.682.966 (.39.63 per cent.). Country Party 424.434 (10 per cent.); Labour 1.972.302 (46.68 per cent.); Lang Labour Party 30.745 (0.71 per cent.); j Communists 37,090 (0.37 per cent.): Others 90.314 •2.11
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    TIN MARKET IS CAUTIOUS
    91 1 U.P LONDON. Wed.—The tin market turned cautious at the afternoon session today preferring to see whether Singapore prices could be held after their sensational rise of some $12 (8) this week. Spot eased five shillings to £610-1/2 while three months was content to appreciate £1 to
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    Mistaken For ISuudii: VA . Killed
    75 1 Mistaken For ISuudii: VA Killed STOP PRESS SEGAMAT, Today. A police patrol killed one and wounded two others of their own party whom they mistook for bandits yesterday. The wounded, a police constable, and an auxiliary policeman and the dead, another police constable, had wandered off from the main body
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    'Dance Ballerina Dance'
    252 1 Tiff llr. 'Ss, r. li, utmiJ uf the Fine Art of Movement Academy Ihniee Recital yesterday, proves without doubt that Willy I'lok Hanson is n master ot h t craft. She a'so the added power of imparting tier mastery to others, as witness ten year old Juniper
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    TERR ORISTS HELD
    135 1 Reuter. j ASMARA, Wed. .t wan i officially announce l today ti at I the police have made a r.um- ber of arrests following the I recent wave of terrorism m t Eritrea, j Police said I Oat tn< |.;.d found the hir d cat l»*ed by
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    Russia Inquires For Rubber After 3-month Lull
    221 1 WANTS 7,000 TONS NEXT MONTH? Tribune Market Reporter AFIER a three-month lull. Russia was again inquiring: for Malayan rubber in Singapore yesterday. Rubber gained half a cent while local traders began buying on Russian account. Brokers believe Russia may want about 7.000 tons,
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    EDUCATION
    54 1 Reuter. LONDON. Wed.—Mr. Hector Hughes, Labour, asked in the House of Commons today on what grounds the BrUish delegation to the United Nations General voted against equal education for children of **ffll traces in non-self-governing territories. Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones replied that the vote was not cast against the
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    WHEELS ARE TURNING,
    186 1 Reuter. —Creech Jones LONDON, Wednesday. Mt. Creech-Jones, Colonial Secretary, questioned in the Commons today about the provision of a Municipal Council or for elected representatives to the Legislative Council of Colony of Hongkong, said he was anxious to reach a decision as early as possible. Reminded that
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    THEFT COST BOY HIS LIFE
    69 1 U.P. NEW YORK, Wed. A lri-year-old boy gave his life for a few stolen coins, police said today. Thp youth, John King, ..natehed a cash box from the counter of a department store in Brooklyn last Qigttt, Running for the door, he tripped and fell
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    SMITH'S PROGRESS
    26 1 Reuter. FREETOWN, Wed. J-'ir John Lucie-Smith, Chief Justice cf Sierra Leone who was shot on Saturday was staled today to be makin,,' satisfactory progress.—Reuter.
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    Kostov Sentenced To Death
    134 1 Reuter. SOFIA, Wed.— Traicho Kostov. formei Bulgarian VicePi emier. accused of spying for Britain, the United States and Yugoslavia, was today sentenced to death for treason by the Bulgarian Supreme Court. Five of ten Communist officials tried with him received life sentences, three 15 years, one
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    FRENCH DETAIN TWO SHIPS, 150 SOLDIERS
    97 1 Reuter. PARIS. Wed. A French naval patrol arrested two Chinese Nationalist vessels in the Bay of Along today and interned the 150 soldiers aboard, the. French news agency reported from Hanoi. Th<- ihipa were believed by French official quarters to be taking the fleeing
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    COMMENDED BY CONSUE
    54 2 Members of the post senior and senior classes of the (Line National Sjfcjjj Singapore. M«. Urn the principal of tte school is in ihe ntr ihe C nnese c im.re Mr N V C heng commended the:,, on Mm high peres-at age [HUT In iru X 1
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    Mountbatten Took His Orders From Washington
    473 2 SAYS CROWN I ORD Louis Mountbatten. Supreme Allied Commander, dm not take his orders L from the British Crown. He derived his authority from the Combined Chiefs of Staff Washington, said Mr. A. D. Farrell. Crown Counsel, when he argued against Sir Roland Braddell's
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    BEVIN LAID UP FOR 3 DAYS
    45 2 U.P. LONDON. Wed. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, 68. was confined to his home with cold for the third consecutive day today. Bevin returned last weekend from a 14-day holiday but has been unable to return to work since. 11.P.
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    FROM BED TO BED
    44 2 Yesterday, at about 7.38 a.m. a male Chinese, occupying a room in the Empress Hotel a; Middle Road suddenly fell from Ms bed. The man was seriously injured and had to be rushed to the General Hospital in an Ambulance.
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    Estate Lines And Bungalows Razed
    185 2 IN the early hours of yesterday morning, about 50 1 khaki-clad Chinese oandits marched into a division of the Tebong Estate, near Malacca, and set lire to a conductor's bungalow and a labourers' line, after taking 28 identity cards off the Tamil labour force who
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    U.K. OBJECTS TO U.S. TERMS
    47 2 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Wed. Britain objected today to the terms under which the Urated States proposes to supply her with weapons under President Truman's arms-fcr-Allies programme. The objection was communicated by Sir Oliver Franks. British Ambassador, to Secretary of State, Dean Acheson. —Reuter.
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    MILLION STRIKE
    19 2 A.P. ROME. Wed. Italy's three major labour unions called a strike tonight of 1.000,000 state employees. A.P.
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    BAO DAI
    29 2 Reuter. SAIGON, Wed. Ex-Em-peror Bao Dai, who is. to leave Saigon for Paris on Dec. 18. may postpone his departure, according to- a usually well-informed source today.—Reuter.
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    CONDUCTOR GETS 6 WEEKS
    51 2 S. Palani. another Singapore Traction Company bus conductor was sentenced to six week's hard by Second Police Magistrate yesterday when found guilty of misappropriating 10 cents for which he issued a used ticket. Palani ri'ed notice of appeal He was offered bail of $500 in two
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    NEW OFFICIALS
    68 2 At a meeting of the Chinese Friendly Association held in the Club premises at 126, Alhert Street. the following were elected to hold office for the coming year: President Mr. Choo Hob Soon; vice-pre-sidents, If<) in Lin Soh Poh, .100 Chiang. Cheok Peng Chiok, Chua Kirn Hock, Ong
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    8 MALAYANS FOR ILO MEETING
    151 2 MALAYA will send eightdel egates— four from Singapore and four from the Federation of Malaya—to the second Asian Regional Conference of the International Labour Organisation in Ceylon from Jan. 16 to 28 next year, it was announced yesterday. The Singapore delegation will include Mr. G.
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    170 WANT JOB AS LABOUR INSPECTOR
    143 2 The Labour Department Selection Board yesterday interviewed prospective candidates for the recently advertised Labour Inspectors post. More than 170 persons applied for this post, but the interviewed were those considered likely to stand a good chance at the final selection, due within three or
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    WEEK-END CHRISTMAS PARTIES
    91 2 The Singapore District Methodist Youth Fellowship will hold a Christmas fancy dress social at the Paya Lobar MYF Hall 8, Boundary R.oad, at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday. Three prizes will be awarded to the most simple and original fancy dresses worn that night. The Y.W.C.A. will be
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    FROM CHEAP WORDS TO A COSTLY BLOW
    76 2 MALACCA. Wed —An argument which led to olows cost Ong Chin Choo. a Straits-born Chinese. $232.--50. when he appeared before the Sessions Court President. Mr. F. A. Chua. for voluntarily causing grievous hurt to M. A. Gomes, a merchant and news agent. Gomes
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    MORE STALLS TO AUCTION FISH
    42 2 Additional stalls to auction fish will be erected by the Municipality in the Ellenborough and the Beach Road Markets. A plan of expansion by building three additional sales-places has been approved. Construction will commence early next year.
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      416 2 ON YOUR RADIO TODAY BLUE NETWORK Heads"; 9.30 Time sijjnn! K Humorous Songs. KNAIKH PRnrRiuviv News; 9.45 Kvcning Star: 10.00 6.30 p.m. Time Signal Kmil.ISH PROGRAMMES Music of the Hills; 10.30 Music News; 6 40 Orchestra Music; 10.00 a.m. News from Kuala ,or dancing; 11.00 (lose Down. «.45 Talk; 6.55
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    STRAITS $ FOR TORN U.S. NOTES
    103 3 STRAITS FOR TORN U.S. NOTES DO you have any torn U.S. Tteasury bills? Dc not throw them away. You can still get their value in Straits dollars. Hand whatever torn U.S. Treasury bills you have to any local bank. The management, with the approval of the Exchange Control, will send
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    Planning and doodling —there is a difference
    187 3 Planning and doodling there is a difference JO many in Singapore, planning means putting some lines on paper which show v. piece of land laicl out with roads, back lanes and building lots—something that can be thought of and drawn overnight. This, said Mr. J. XL Fraser, manager o r
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    COUNCIL MEET
    20 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Council of State of Perils will meet in the Council Chamber, Kangar. on Sunday.
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    M.P. CALLS FOR CHECK ON GEN. MacARTHUR
    194 3 A.P. Wednesday—A Labbur Member of Parliament has called on the government to challenge the powers of General Douglas Mac Arthur in Japan. Speaking in the House of Commons, Labourite John Paton expressed concern over abolition of minimum prices for Japanese exports by General
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    GOD WILL BREAK YOU TO PIECES
    210 3 Woman Threatens Judge LUMPUR. Wednesday—An elderly Chinese woman today warned the president of th p Sessions Court, "God will break you up into pieces if you eject me." Replied Mr. D.G.M. Grant: "I'll take a chance He ordered Madam Wong to vacate a plot
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    TRIAL BY JURY NOT ALLOWED
    104 3 Mohamed bin Sidin. Chief Inspector of the Singapore Police Force, made an application through his counV 1. Mr. Wee Chong Jin. in the First District Court yesterday, to have his case tried by a jury. The Judge. Mr. H. E. Kingdim, turned down the application.
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    SELLER OF PETROL ACQUITTED
    59 3 Mr. T. P. Mauger, manager of the Federated Motors Limited, and his petrol pump attendant, L Vellasamv, were summoned to the First District Court yesterday. Mr. Mauger was charged with allowing Vtllasamy to supply gasoline to a motorist without receiving coupons, and Vellasamv with supplying the
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    THE KING GOT NO SALUTE
    71 3 Although yesterday was the King's Birthday, no salutes were fired in Singapore. There were no parades and no messages of congratulation from the people of Singapore. The reason is that although yesterday was the King's real birthday, his 'official birthday' is celebrated in June each
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    GET YOUR LICENCE NOW
    42 3 The Registrar of Vehicles. Singapore, said yesterday that new licences for motor vehicles for the first half of 1950 will be issued from today. Applications preferrably by post should be sent to the Registrar of Vehicles, Middle Road.
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    All Set-But The Pianist Was Late
    143 3 gVERYTHING was ready in Washington House in Singapore yesterday. The bride. Dorothy Ann Peterson, was there —waiting upstairs. The bridegroom, Donald \V. Burnett-Rae, Chief Opera tions Officer of the Civil Aviation Department wa3 there—waiting downstairs. But the pianist was late and the bridegroom kept
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    Sibn Inquiry Opens Today
    66 3 The preliminary inquiry I into the fatal stabbing of Mr. Duncan Stewart. Governor of Sarawak will open today in Sibu. Mr. F. C. 2£ Drake. the District Olhcer of the lower j Regency will preside. Among the witnesses wili be Professor Mekie, Mr. J. C. H.
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    Workers Must Have Cards
    119 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— No workman after Jan. L 1950 will be able to get a job if he does not have an identity card. The Emergency (Registration of Labour! Regulations which come into force on that day lay it down that no employer should engage a
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    TOP RED HELD IN POLICE RAID
    199 3 LUMPUh W ?dnetday- -A Poike lunglc squad captured an important Chinese bandit leader during a raid in the Gunong Cheroh area near Ipoh yesterday. Seven more bandits and their agents were caught by security forces operating in the Federation. Five of them including a
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    Gen. Gale In Malaya
    58 3 The Director-General of Mnitarv Training at the War Office. Lt. Gen. R.N. Gaie. C.8.. D.5.0., 0.8.E.. M.C. arrived at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. He was met by the G.O.C. Malaya District, Mai. Gen. C. H. Boucher. General Gale is making an extensive tour of the Far Last
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    3ANDIT HANGED
    24 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed Chhi Koon Sin hanged this morning in the Pudu Gaol was tbi 77th bandit executed under the Emergency Regulations.
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    FOOD FOR THOUGHT
    524 4 WE have nothing against those who are asking for a probe into Singapore's child feeding centres. Like anything else on which public money is spent, they should always be under the scrutiny of the people's representatives. And if there is something wrong, if they are not operating
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    BURMA ROAD
    119 4 PEPORTS from Burma announce the arrival of small contingents of Chinese Communist troops. According to a broadcast from Communist headquarters at Toungoo, they crossed the Yunnan border and were "warmly welcomed" at a town called Sima. Other contingents were also said to have entered Burma from Tonkin, in
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    THE HISTORY OF A PROUD BUT TURBULENT PEOPLE
    3369 4 r EASTERN 1 BY IHtM.AIHIIt Ill/JIOY MACIJSM M.P. APPR OACHES-26— A day or two after I arrived in England I was rang up from No. 10 Downing Street and told that Mr. Churchill wanted me to come down to Chequers fox a
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    DO THE M.P.s REALLY REPRESENT THE ORDINARY BRITISH ELECTOR?
    2666 5 OPINION WAS FAIRLY EVENLY BALANCED SIX hundred and forty M Ps sit in the present Parliament. Together they are the chosen representatives of the British people. But do they really represent the ordinary elector? To track down the answer to this
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    GOLD SOARS IN MANILA ON $ CONTROLS
    284 6 GOLD SOARS IN MANILA ON CONTROLS U.P. MANILA Wednesday. The price of gold in Manila has risen sharpiy in the iTI past three (Jay* apparently due to the recently-imposed exchange-control. Financial sources said Manila is now the most profitable gold bullion market s prices ranged from 54 to 57 dollars
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    SEA MAIL
    34 6 Mails are expected from the Federation. Thailand. Hongkong and Japan at the G.P.O today. Mails from Java will close at noon and for the Federation. U.S.A.. and Canada, at b p.m. today.
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    INDUSTRIALS. TINS BETTER
    46 6 The industrials market continued strong and prices showed general imprmement. The. price of tm SI V 97 per picul gave ihe na share market some encouragement and prices »\ere a little tinner wnS bu>ers still predominating St the close. Battel share, weie he«itant.
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    853 6 INDUSTRIALS Athi l Ice 2.15 2 25 Alex. Brickf Pref. 2.40 2.50 Otd. 2.17 l. 2.25 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 j
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    Good wood Park Hotel—10% Div.
    242 6 Goodwood Park Hotel Ltd had a profit of $130.152 for the year ending September 30. 1949. Together with $8.031 brought forward from last year, the profit available for distribution is $144.183. The directors recommend a dividend tt 10 per cent, less tax. The balance to
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    Tin Gains
    69 6 The price of tin rose avam yesterday to $297 per pictil In Singapore. The >;ain was $X 7/8 on the picul over Tuesday's price. LONDON Dei 13. Spot £604 1 2 buyers—Un) changed. Three months £572 1.4 buvera —Up £6 9 4. Turnover: 375 tons. Second Session: Spot
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    Along The Godowns
    73 6 Roys (42 43): Wakde (41): Sidenak (40); Straat Soenda CAX 39): Antiloehus (S3 34); (iewang (81); Ferndale (17 IK); St. Thomas (19 20); Sendang (24)); S.H.B. Craft (21 22); Star Alcyone (28 24); Kutsang (25 20): Taking (27 28); Nordstjernan (29 30): Sirdhana (15 10); Relau (14);
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    RUBBER PRICE UP AGAIN
    102 6 The rubber commodity market opened quiet yesterday and with strong buying for Russian account the market rose by 1/2 cents frOtd Tuesday. Closing prices in cents per pound wCTST "'""T* Buyers Sellers No. 1 RSS f.o.b. Jan. 491 49i No. 2 RSS f.o.b. Jan. 48i No.
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    PRODUCE
    73 6 Coffee was a qir.e; market ye«terdav with sirmli business done at $105.50 and $I<»6 per picul for Rio No. 5 off the Ruvs. Therewere further buyers at (he price with sellers holding oft for better prices. Copra changed hands esterda v at E3fl per picul f.o.b. D«. Jan. with
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    Drop In U.S. Rubber Exports
    82 6 A.P. WASHINGTON*. Wed. The U.S. Commerce Depart meal estimated on Tuesday thai export«it rubber and rubber products this year will br> th*» lowest since 1944 at an estimated totji value of U5515,000,000. U< tober shipments were valued at U558,218,371. compared with U557,»33.000 in September and
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    UNITED MALACCA RUBBER
    184 6 The thirty-tlf»h ordinary general mevtinp of the United MalaeAl Rubber Estates Limited was held in Malacca on December pi. Daio Tan Chen? Lock, chairman and manatinir Director of the company pit sided. Others present included Messrs. Tan 800 CHU. Chee Guan Chiang, Chan Te« k Chye. Chi
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    R.A.F. TOO GOOD FOR NAVY XV
    225 7 QUADRANGULAR RUGBY Tribune Staff Reporter. THF Royal Air Force rugby team beat a weak Royal Navy XV by 12 points (four tries' to nil in v Quadrangular Rugby Football match at Changi yesterday. i .1 Airmen benefitted much through their more experienced players though
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    MOORE WINS
    46 7 Reuter. TOLEDO. OHIO. Wed. Arche Moore (12 st. 5 lb.), Toledo, beat Leonard Morrow (12 st. 7 1b... of Oakland. California, here last night to < am recognition by the National Prating Association aslogical contender for the world light heavyweight held by England's Freddie Mills.—Renter.
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    RUGGER PLAYER
    31 7 Mr. A E. S. Talbot. wellknown rugaer player, has assumed duties in Malacca as Senior Customs Officer. Mr. Talbot reuresented Panang. Singapore and Negri at rugger btfore the war.
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    SHUTTLE GIANTS TO DO BATTLE TONIGHT
    536 7 r fHĔ Singapore Badminton Association is presenting a battle of giants at the Clerical Fnion Hall tonight. Wong Peng Soon and Ismail bin Marjan, the two most outstanding players in the current Singapore badminton championships, will get to grins for the second time this
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    Malacca Team For S'pore Named
    117 7 Malacca. Wed. -"^Fifteen players have been selected to travel to Singapore fur iio> key matches against Stagapere ana Seiangor in the triangular meet there this week-end. Tarn Kong Chee. who was unable to travel to Sereniban laat week-end owing to indisposition, lias recovered anil is
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    Preston N.E. Paid £44,000 For 2 Men
    95 7 Reuter. I.ONDON, Wed. Division ioid bad club Preston North End today paid a record transfer fee of between £26.000 and £27.000 to Sheffield Wednesday, another League II club, lor inside iorward Eddie Quigley. The sum paid for Quigley exceeds by at least £1.000
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    Empire XI For Second Test Named
    103 7 Reuter BOMBAY, Wed. To Commonwealth cricket team for the second Test against India starting here on Friday will be chosen from the following 12 players: L. Livingston (New Souht Wales) (Captain). F. Freer (Victoria). F. Worrell (West Indies). J. Holt west. Indies*. W. Alley
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    AUSSIES SAY NO
    19 7 Reuter. SYDNEY, Wed. The Australian Amateur Swimming Union today decided not to invite Japanese to Australia.—Reuter.
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    C-G's CUP MAIN EVENT AT PENANG RACES
    1307 7 PENANG, We*.— The Com-missioner-General'-* Clip will he the premier featur.' of Ihe Penang Turf Club's f.uir-day Christmas and New Year Meeting to be held on Dec. 24, 26 and 31 and Mmm. 2. The race will Ui run over II furlongs on the
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    Tomorrows Fight Gives Promise Of Great Battle
    285 7 Tribune Staff Reporter TOMORROW night's 1 fight between Siamese Phol Prapadaeng and Filipino Speed Cabanella at the Great World Arena gives promise of a great battle. For one thing, Cabanella has been through a prolonged peiiod of training. He started his work-out as
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    CLEAN SWEEP BY EXCELSIORS
    134 7 i Following are the iesults of the badminton match in which the Excelsior BP. beat the K.P.Y.F. Badminton Club by 1 seven matches to nil. (Excelsior playera mentioned first): SINGLES Tan Hoik Kirn I.eat Wee Seng Toh 15 9; 14- f IS; 15—10; Ang Cheng Wong
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      315 7 NOTICE j NOTICE is hereby given that LOKE TAI POOI of No. 15 I Margoliouth Road, Singapore.! I Mediral Practitioner i& applying !to the Governor for uaturaUaa- tion, and that any person wlio knows any reason wwtf naturalisation should not be granted should send a written signed statement of the
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      606 7 Re: JOHNSON RADIO COMPANY. This is to infc-.m our customers and others that it is rot true that the firm of Johnson Radio Company of No. 276 Rerangoon Road. Singapore, is being wound up as from the iOth of December, 1949, as stated in an advertisement which appeared in a
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      359 7 ENGAGEMENT The ci gagement between Edward Er Soon Kwee, sth son of Mr. and Mr.. Ec Eng Wah, Singapore and LUy Bong Mun Moi, 4th daughter of the late Mr. Bong Kirn Shin and Madam Thian Ng Jin. Sarawak papers ilease copy. SITS: VACANT Architectural Draftsmen wanted with experience for
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      46 7 CURLY KAYOK by Sam LUff MOM- JOE JINKS T VUM-VLI 1.. 1 Hfl WELCOME H 1 F THEN. AFTER A (IS BACK.' MAKiN' IS MOr/E.JOE.V' WnATRE > ASOUND AND SEE** TUNE-UP, Fl.: I *->>yOU* <Y«*:CH CONTENDER WE GIVE HIM A SHOT AT THE j JOE j.I I
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    Stewart Killing Explained In House
    216 8 Reuter. LONDON. Wednesday. fOLONIAL Secretary Arthur Cre?ch-Jones told ihe Hons? of Commons today that the assassi nation of the Governor of Sarawak, Mr. Duncan Stewart, on D?e 3 was not the result of any widespread political dissatisfaction. It seemed, he said, to have been a
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    EMPIRE DEFENCE
    32 8 Reuter. WELLINGTON. Wed New Zealand's new Nation- ahst rrime Minister, declared today the resources of N« w Zealand were "at the di -posal oi u*C goeis of empire defence." —Heater.
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    SHIP EXPLODES EIGHT SAVED
    115 8 U.P. MIAMI. FLORIDA. Wed. vivors from the shi/>. believed t v e i xplc if>n and rinTltng of the Dutch mototship Doios w*ie picked up from a Hfehoat by a passing tanker yesterday and wwcli wa updci way for six oth« rs of the M-men ere
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    NO STATEMENT YET
    37 8 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. Mr. Arthur Creech-Jones, British Colonial Secretary, told ;J~rliairicnt today that he could not yet make a further statement on Penang'o peti- j tir-i for secession from the i' Federation of Malaya.—Router.
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    PAKAIR GROUNDED
    33 8 Reuter. KARACHI. W«l. The j Pakistan Cloverr-in >nt has suspended all Pak.ur Air'at»? i services fo'lowing' Mondav's 1 crash o? a Dakc-ca n wnicn i 2t> people were It'llcd.—R_vi- j tcr.
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    WOMAN RED SHOT
    26 8 Reuter. TAIPEH. Wed. Cheng Yi-ming, an alleged woman Communist agent, wraa anu eg 11 people who faced a linng squad last Sunday Reuter
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    LONDON SHARES
    164 8 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. Kirni hut quiet conditions ruled in the London Sto< k Bachaas* todaj at he start of the new -radius: period. There was. however, a certain amount of speculative activity whi<h produced useful rises !a German and Japanese loans. Overseas rails were in keen demand and
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    CHEERIO CLUB OPENS IN H.K.
    45 8 Reuter. HONGKONG. Wed. Goveinor Sir Alexander Grantham mis evening opened the new Cheerio Seivices Club. The General Officer Com-manding-in-chief on behalf of the tree services thanked the Colonial government for its contiioution 01 riKsk6d.ouU towards the welfaie of servicemen.- Reutei
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    London Spivs Are Busy
    103 8 Reuter. LONDON. Wed. London's spives the J men oul for easy money i without too much hard J I w nrl. are cashing in 1 on a new idea. S I They ha\;- bi en going rofSSd lar.ns with lorries buy teg Hat pools co- 1
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    INDIAN ARMY GIVES LOCAL BOYS A CHANCE
    82 8 An entrance examination to the Inter Service Wing of the Indian Forces Academy win be held in Allahabad. Bombay. Calcutta, Delhi. Madras and Nagpur in March 1950. Local Indians interested should apply to the Federal Public Service Commission New Delhi for entry forms.
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    15 FEDERAL STATES SIGN DRAFT CONSTITUTION OF NEW INDONESIA
    342 8 UP. and Reuter. BAT AVI A, Wednesday. RFPRFSFNTATIVES of the Indonesian Republic and 15 federal states tonirht signed the draft constitution of the new independent Indone* 'ian state in a io-minnte ceremony at the home of Pres dent So?karnO. It was
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    STRIKING NURSES
    34 8 Reuter. Calcutta, wed. Calcutta'?" women police were called out recently to bffeak up a demonstration by ;V iking nurses in the gr junds of a city hospital. They arrested 41 strikers. —Renter.
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    POLICE HUNT
    43 8 A.P. PENANG. Wed The Pen- i ang Police ere huntinir for a Communi.st ptcsa somewheie in the island. Ptinted pamphlets, wntten in Chinese claim- ing "peopled interest ate J being safeguarded by the j Malayan Liberation Army," have been discovered. A.P.
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    P-51 CRASHES
    28 8 Reuter. HATAVIA. Wed. P 51 aircraM of the Dutch Army Air Puree crashed xd 'tnometers southwest 'A Bandung yesterday. Its only occupant was killod instantl Reuter.
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL
    117 8 METHODIST HI Kl H Maf lavan Annual Conference 11 a.m. Committee Meetings. 2 p.m Conference cession. 3 p.m. Bishop'* Hour 5.3M p.m. Committee Meeting's 8 p.m. Barker Koad. MAL.tk' 1ST. .*11) (Uss: KOTA K.*.iA Malay School. r ic t*ia Street a.3o p.m. I YOI'NO PEOPLE'S ».KOl
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    CINEMA
    170 8 t'ATIIXY: "Litt'e Women" with June Allyson an J Pet<>r Lawlord a: 11 a.m., 1.45. 4.15. 6.15 and 9.30 p.m. < XPITOI '«Tlie Ga! who Took the West." wth Yvonne Pe and Charles Cob'irn at 11. 1.45. 4.00. 6.30 and 9.30. REX; House of Pt ran;; jih" with Edward Robinson
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    SPORT
    22 8 HOCKEY TOIRNEY: Chinese v. Khalsa Assn.. Khalsa ground or Thomson Road. HOC KKY FRIENDLY: S.C.C. women v. D.C.R.K., Gillman Barrack?. i
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    Shot-up To Death
    59 8 Shot -up To Death Romn'd R-rxant ~f Miinci-, in liana I .s».A. t hurled into the a.r as his car rolled our out oi control. ha**, uneonseiou, on Mephone wires at An U ndian.ul»^»; n fr nearby Mexandria He prep iring to lower him. Bryant died half an hour later
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    REDS SET TRAP FOR 6 ARMIES
    75 8 Reuter. HONGKONG. Wed. Communist 'troops under General Liv Po-cheng were today setting a trap for six Nationalist aimies in the area of Chengtu. last Nationalist stronghold in Szeehuan Province, accoidmg to reports reaching Hongkong. The city its-'f was still in Nationalist nands. but ("cm
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    'Don't Recognise Mao' Urges Fitzroy MacLean
    236 8 U.P. LONDON. Wednesday FOREIGN Undersecretary Christopher Mayhew told the House of Commons today that if the Chinese Communists had continued" their detention of American Consul Axltus Ward. It would have been a very gfave matter." Mayhew was asked by Conservative Fitzroy MacLean to give
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