Malaya Tribune, 27 January 1950

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  • 70 1 Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tet Tribune" Spore LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA i i 11 Phone 3811/3 Nine Ihm Published simultaneously at 8m gapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh m «d Penang, TWELVE PAGES. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1950 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE
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  • 76 1 Yeste rda y's Celebration A buffet supper was held at No. 2 Peirce Road yesterday by the Representative of the Government of India. Mr. J. A. Thivy to commemorate the birth of the Republic of India. Top picture shows a scene from one of the dances at the party. A
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  • 175 1 A.P. LONDON, Thursday. gRITAIN'S Ministry of Defence is spending £60,--000,000 on an arms project which is so secret that it will not even talk about it to Parliament. Testimony before the House of Commons select commute? on estimates made public today revealed that the
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  • 27 1 A.P. CAIRO, Thurs.—Mr. Ernest Bevin, who is on his way home from the Commonwealth conference arrives in Cairo tomorrow on a "courtesy visit." —A.P.
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  • 23 1 LAUSANNE. Switzerland. Thurs.—Rita Hayv/orth and her baby princess Yanmin left the Swiis clinic today for Aly Khan's chalet at Gstaad.—
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  • 148 1 U.P. A.P. TAIPEI, Thurs. Shin Shao-yang, a Foreign Office spokesman, said today at a press conference that the Nationalist Government is sending relief supplies into Vietnam territory for the Nationalist troops who tied there. Ho sai-i he could not confirm report tnat the Chin Communists nad
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  • 26 1 A.P SAIGON. Thurs. Sources e'ose to Philip Jessu, today repotted that he v/as favourably impressed by France's arguments for the recognition of Bao Dai.—A.P.
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  • 214 1 SEVEN DIE IN GUN-BATTLE U.P. JAKARTA. Thursday. FOLLOWING a two-hour gun battle in the heart Of Jakarta today in which seven men were killed, the Indonesian Government imposed a curfew in the city to operate from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. daily. Dutch troops
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  • 86 1 A.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Thurs.— Russian recognition of the Indonesian Republic smooths thm way for the new nation to become the 60th member of tne United Nations. The decision from Moscow came as a surprise to most U.N. de:ega«.es oecause of rust Russian
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  • 19 1 U.P. CAIRO. Thurs.—The newspaper Alanram said today that Dean Acheson has been invited to visit Egypt.—U.P.
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  • 115 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. 3r<an Hume, 29-year-old self-styled "Flying Smuggler" was sect to prison ot 12 years he:e today for long an u&utory after he cct in th; murder of car dealer, Stan'oy Petty. Hume was charged with tt,( murder of Setty, whose hacked torso was
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  • 488 1 19 Hurt In Bombay 'Black Flag' Parade Reuter. NEW DELHI, Thursday. WHILE India's subjects celebrated the birth of the first republic in the British Common wealth, Communists Bombay attempted to mar the c?c°sion by a "b!°ek flag" demonstration. A riot developed in which 19 people were
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  • 67 1 U.P. LONDON. Thurs. Eome 60 tons of cash tin were sold this morning at £600 but there was no business in three-months tin. the price of which marked up 17 shillings six pence to £583|. i Closing prices at the morning session: Spot £599* buyers £600
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  • 33 1 Reuter. PARIS, Thurs. Four Japanese officers found guilty of having executed 300 French prisoners in 1945 have been sentenced \o death by a Saigon military court. Agence Fiance Press reported. R>utcr.
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  • 94 1 Reuter. MELBOURNE. Thurs. Prime Minister Robert Menzies declared in a nationwide Australia Day broadcast tonight: "The world needs the British Empire by whatever name it is called.'' "We do not and cannot think of people or other British nations as foreign people." he said. Mr.
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  • 123 1 Reuter. BERLIN. Thurs. The Communistic Socialist Unity rarty newspaper Neves Djutschland toaay ca.iea on German foreign legionaries in Indo-China to mutiny, shoot their officers, and go over to the "Liberation Army of Vietnam." "We know that our paper gets through to the foreign legionaires," the newspaper
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  • 472 1 Reuter and A.P. LONDON. Thursday. THE British Admiralty announced today that it'had issued a writ for damages in the High Court against the owners of the Swedish ship Divina which collided with the British submarine Truculent in the Thames estuary on Jan. 12. The
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  • 72 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Thurs.— Tho United States imported «30,386 tons of natural muter in 1P49, according to prelin'r ary statistics reported hy the United States Department cf Commerce today. The 194G total was 735.1:10 tons. Mu'ava. Bft usual, was the main srurce of rubber, supplying 41.7
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  • 55 1 STOP PRESS LAKE SUCCESS, Thurs.— A high Indonesian spokesman said tod?.y that it the situation deteriorates in West Java where Hutch Capt. 'Turko' Wsster'.lng is conducting giicrHJa operations against the Indonesian Republican Army, the newly formed United States of Indonesia will I;ring the cast
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  • 31 1 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. The Chinese CommosM Governhmt' today protested strongly to Thal>and agains alleged maltreatment am. killing of Chinese, th" N(w China news agenry reported tonight.— Reuter.
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    • 99 1 Internal Tetocommunieation By I ff TEMCoi'HONE II W Stores, J A product of:-— TELEPHONE Manvit.trMU in;: I Co.. Ltd.. London. England, j Factory Kepre* tntative:— I 1 "UEri A" 49. Sco tts Road rlLtLfl ir pcrt iMiune HOBB I j RIDE A RALEIGH THE-ALL-STEEL BICYCLE THERE NEVER WAS A BETTER
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  • 88 2 The rubber commodity market was extremely quiet and lifeless yesterday. Business passing was very poor and dealers took little inI terest. Closing prices in cents I per pound were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 RSS f.o.b. P'eD. 49; m No. 2 RSS f.o.b. Feb. 491 491 No. 3 RSS
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  • 41 2 WASHINGTON. Thurs.--1 United States Secretary ol I State Dean Acheson coni firmed today that Dr. I Djuanda. Indonesian Mlnii ster for Economic Affairs. would discuss a possum.--1 loan for the new Republic from the Export-Import I Bank.
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  • 24 2 Singapore. Thurs. The local share market was extremely idle in ail sections. There were only very few price alterations io the list. <
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  • 154 2 Reuter. NEW YORK, Thursday. ACCORDING to the Journal of Commerce, leading A rubber companies will submit at Congressional hearings next month concrete proposals naboral synthetic production. They believe scheme can safeguard national security without "ecessity of continuing rigid government control for another
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  • 43 2 Singapore Jan. 26. Tin price ylSl 3 8 per picul exsmelter. Down S3 8. LONDON Jan. 25. Spot £599 Unchanged. Three months V 5821. I d Turnover 30 tons. Second session: Soot <£599j Unchanged. Three months CMS}. Ud Turnover 85 tons.
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  • 59 2 The produce markets j were idle yesterday in Sin- gapore with the Indian businessmen celebrating Indian Republic Day. The coffee market was quiet. Copra was unchanged. London bid the i cnilvalent 01 S37i per picul fob. Sing. Feb.-Mar. Local sellers were indicated at No business was done. Coconut
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  • 216 2 Reuter. THE HAGUE. Thursday. THE latest available figure on world tin industry published by Ac International Tin show mine production in November 14,300 toiig torn, of tin in concentrates, compared with 16,SW in October The increase was due entirely to Bolivia whose November exports
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  • 75 2 Gujarat (44); Bursa (Sheers): Yale County (42 3): Sitsen (40 U? Benvorlich (38 9); Marchen Maersk (35 6); President Van Burcn (33 4); Menestheus (17 8); Irisbank (19 20); M. Brander (21/2); Nordkyn (23 4); Kepons (25 6) Elpenor (27 8VCharon (29 30); Denbigshire (15 6); H.
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  • 841 2 Singapore, Thurs. INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 11 »0 12.25 xb.. xd Alex. Bricks Pref. 2.40 2.50 i ord. 2.20 2.25 18. B? Petrol 34/ 6 35 6 B.M. Trustees 7.K> 8.50 Con. Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/3 Ord. 15/3 16/6 E. Utd. Assur. 39 25 40.25 Est. Trust
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  • 80 2 So one fell asleep as the s.s. Charon's Third Onicer Mr. J. W. Cook i ;in uniform) .counted sheep—with an auto- matic hand device. The Charon seen at the wharf-side brought more than 3,000 sheep to meat starved Singapore. The white sheep in the picture
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  • 238 2 Router. LONDON. Thuis. Britiai financial official stated today that the Commonwealth's 25 per cent rut in dollar*imports was i \.(\vcd as a matter of routine at the Colombo conference. But they denied that any new propop- ais or any change in the arI rangement
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    • 218 2 WITH All THE 1 J_ FURY Of its vast background, comes flk the first great story of the dark fl iPE?W Continent's Diamond Country! jB Paramount prtMnts I ISk BURT PAUL —■■PI UNCASTER HENREID fl HT CLAUDE PETE* C 2 is LORM P J**- y CORIrtNE CALVET TODAY 11 a.m.
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    • 179 2 TO-DAY 5 SHOWS II a.m., 1.45, 4.00, 6.30 9.30 p.m. HH'LJ IN ONE OF THE Vimll MEAT!EST RCLES CF liUkllJ CAREER 0 WITH IDA LUPINO, GIG YOUNG EDGAR BUCHANAN ACTION FUL HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE THE APACHE MASSACRE OF THF MEXICAN DISCOVERERS OF THE TREASURE. THE LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE ON THF
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    • 381 2 ON THE AIR BLUE NETWORK ENGLISH PROGRAMMES RUIO a.m. News from Kuala I umpur; 19.05 Close Down: 12.0« Programmes in Malax I. 60 p.m. Half honr ol music played in the South American way; 1.30 Time Signil yews; 1.45 Accent on Melody—l.pvis Williams Orchestra; 2.'!© f'fose Duu n. «.00 p.m.
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  • 235 3 14,000 TONS OF FLOUR WILL BE LANDED SOON Tribune Staff Reporter pLOUR starved Malaya will get 14,000 tons of flour from Canada and Australia on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Three ships are bringing in 8,000 tons from Canada and 6,000 tons from Australia. Of this
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  • Article, Illustration
    53 3 EVIL Koroscenko, 20-stone Czech wrestler, Ciopj is not trying to chew off his thumb. He is shouini/ a T, ibune \nutn u!n;t he can do |g ith an Australian penny. The Above) convinced our 1 cameraman that if you uani uour thumb, put it between Emil's teeth. A WUh
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  • 43 3 XT r ALA LUMPUR, Thurs. —The eighty-second bandit j was hanged today at j Pudu Gaol. He was' J Ahmad (Alias Attan) bin Hashim who was execuj ted under the Emergency Regulations. Ahmad was arrested on July 29 last in Muar.
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  • 231 3 Tribune Staff Reporter Mr. L. B. Pearson, Canadian Secretary of the State for External Affairs .stepped off lane at KaUang Airoort yesterday afternoon he I, "We arc not hero for secret talks." Eft was referring to Mr. P. C. Spender, the x □atralian Minister
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  • 57 3 Shortly, Singaporeans will see the Vampire streak across the skies again. Following the successful trials of the Vampire Mark 111 in the Far East last year, a Vampire Mark V has now arrived at the R.A.F. Maintenance Base. Seletar. This fighter-bomber aircraft is being assembled and
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  • 25 3 JOhuRK BAhHU, Thurs. pot obstructing a public thoroughfare with his car, Low Trmg Tin, of Singapore, was fined $1 in the Police Court to^ay.
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  • 64 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs -Court Inspectoj Mohammed Tahir. had tc withdraw a charge of attempted suicide against 50-year-old Lee Kwang. a tuberculosis patient at the General Hospital today. He told the Magistrate's Court that Lee Kwang had died soon after he jumped out of the 2nd
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  • 56 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. --F or the past two days hl'tv boy scouts from tne h >dist Boys' School and tin* Victoria Institution have helped to stick AntiBandit Month posters in irious languages all toimd the town. While some toys isied themselves with idng up the posters, others •hstributed
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  • 135 3 DAVADAI Gopal, 38. a Municipal labourer, was sentenced to in months' imprisonment in the Fourth DWtnct Ooufl ycsre»dav 4 o»« charges of nslng ro a woman < r lth .n,,.nt to ..'itrase ner desty and causing qrinvi hurl to her with a parangOopal was alleged
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  • 31 3 The Malaya Tribune- lm* j a Town Oilicc at Winston's, j No. 4, The Arcade, where letters and smail advertiseraents, both casual and classified, may be handed in.
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  • 126 3 WHEN Municipal Commissioners meet this month they will be asked to approve a $192,000 programme for re-construction oi roads during 1950. The programme calls lor the resurfacing by the Recondo process of Collyer Quay, from Fuuerton Square to Cecil Street; Fullerton Road, from Anderson Bridge
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  • 102 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.When Omar bin Sajari's name .vas called today in the Magistrates Court there was n'> answer. Court Inspector, Monrt lahir informed the Magistrate that Omar had escaped from Police custody and was at large. Omar, a hospital attendant, faces a charge of enticing away
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  • 62 3 Tan E>ng Loo, who was found guilty on two charges of retaining a stolen camera and assisting in the disposing of another stolen camera, was sentenced in the Fourth District Court yesterday, to five months' imprisonment on eoch charge. The sentences are to run concurrently. The
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  • 37 3 Mr. and Mrs. Chua Mah Teck, who were married yesterday at No. 457. Guillemard Road. The bride was Miss Betty Wee Kirn Neo, ibe only daughter of Madam Lim Peck t gee. Mobile Foto. See. Mobile Foto.
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  • 99 3 Tribune Staff Reporter PROGRESSIVE Party Commissioner, Mrs. Robert Eu's fears that Singapore will become "rabbit complex" If ceiling heights on new buildings were lowered, have been over-ruled by a Municipal Committee. The Committee up-held a previous decision, which was referred back on Mrs. Eu'e
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  • 52 3 Tho ueHitecis have recommend "d that, high ouildinu costs have prevented many poor people t from b.nng housed. They argued that if ceiling heights were reduced, more I houses eouid be built as costs would materially come down. A low c iling they claimed was preferable to none
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  • 92 3 FIFTY prisoners <n Ouiram Road gaol yesterda'i volunteered to fiimc a pint of their blood to the rt<//'v tit k people. Dr. M.C. McLaren, the MNMMM doctor who tuns the General Hospital's Blood Transfusion Service, vent tcf/i Jier wtmf} to the gaol, and collected i\ gifts of
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  • 143 3 Tribune Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners are planning to put a stop to overcrow ding in Traction Company buses. They_have decided to make regulations to this effect and tc get the police to enforce them. This action follows repeated complaints from the public on the
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  • 60 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Tnurs. —Four drivers were fineel $4 each in the Magistrate s Court today, for failing to the "Stop, Look and Go" sign. They were Lee Ah Let, 52, cf Kota Tinggi; Tan Cnai, 3«, of Kulai; Tan Boon Chwee, 22, of
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  • 40 3 JOHORE BAHRu*. Thurs. Wu Yev. Huen. 50, claimed tiial to charge of .•crap rubber irj his car without a haulage permit and a goods vehicle licence in the Police Court today. The case was postponed to Feoruary 1.
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    • 360 3 A .«yj-wn-i-i-1 Jj/Ĕ t. t r J^~'^ ACCOMMODATION VACANCIES: 32. Jalan Besar. Motor Garage for i ;irs. lorries, also repairing, storing, etc. Apply M. Sohan 32. Jalun Pejus**. «G.623». VACANT: Furnished room, with breakfast, private entr-tnee. runr..ng wat»-r, central situation, .'tillable for couple. Box A.3281. M.T.. S ..re. (G. 624).
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    • 208 3 TUITION LEARN Chinese in the S.ngapore riunesr Mandarin School. 122, Prinsep Street. Singapore. New < lass for absolute beginners (Exulanations ra Encrlish) commencing February 2nd, 1950 Mondays Thursdays c.30 to 7 p.m. Class Teacher. Prof. Pearl Liu. U.S.. Ph.D. Vacancies also in other 20 classes (Intermediate. Advanced ft Secondary School
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    • 395 3 Don't envy the motorist... Be one on your Bicycle with -*r Easy to learn easy to this gearless cycle outboard meter does 240 miles per gallon. L Factory Representatives!-— T. V. MITCHELL CO., LTD. SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR PENANG Quick Relief from ■CJS» CHEST SORENESS B\ Bronchial Colds N A sore
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    • 378 3 VAI'XHALL 10 1940 now car appearanr-e Sl'tV Morris to, 1940. Excellent conditions $12<)0'-. View 10 Cavanauh Road <Off Orcliord Road) S pore. (E.610<. 500 c.c. B.S.A. M 'Cycle. Civilian model in good running condition.} Tax-paid, insurance expires 1951. $375,- or nearest. Offers Box A.327P M.T.. S pore. <E.599>. FORD Anglia
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  • 450 4 A GOOD deal of solemn nonsense goes on in the name of the law, but it would be hard to find a rarer piece of judicial hugaboo than the case of the Malayan Boy Scout who is to be deported from Australia Mah Hon Yew was
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  • 94 4 SHOULD husbands tell their wives how much they earn? The women of Britain have just discussed trus burning topic, and the President of the Married Women's Association fevealed that she is trying to get a Bill through Parliament which will mak* 1 it compulsory for the secretive
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  • 1517 4  -  STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER By MENCIUS "Exhibition Ships Inc., of New York City, a private firm, is planning to send the American Representative, formerly the liner President Taft. on a yearlong, round-the-world tour to exhibit American roods direct to importers in the
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  • 661 4 THE PEOPLE'S POSTBAG Sir I take this opportunity of bringing forward the following facts for the consideration of the Municipal Commissioners, and also all members of the public who rely on taxis as an easy and most convenien: form of transport. With on.- seat
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  • 373 4 Sir, Since the Liberation. I have been hunting high and low for a house large enough for myself and my family to live in, instead of having to rough it out in rooms. After fruitless attempts, I approached an old landlord in whose house I
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  • 884 4  -  by R. BROWN Reuter. LONDON THE decision of a 52-year-old British miner's leader to leave his trade union wort for a £4,000 a year post with the Government's National Coal Board has touched off a long-delayed controversy here. Critics say that the Government has
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    • 42 4 The opinion* expressed by Menelua in thi» co- i lumn are n«t neoeaaarily I hose of this paper. If vm agree or disagree with Menciu» write and tell him «o. Address your letter* to: Menclua, c/o. Malaya Tribune, Sioga- J pore. 1
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  • 1143 5 The telepathic powers of Frederick Joseph Marion, a fczech now living in London, enable him to live on the edge of dual streams of consciousness his thoughts sometimes pierce the accepted barriers of time and spring from the minds of others. This psychic or paranormaJ
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  • 886 5 tfXILES and escapees from k Russia bring with them iti-Soviei jokes and aneewhich, they cay. are 111 cur r J nt the people. We present the best of a batch of these stories now circulating within and without Russia. r.uvrull. nooservelt and Un. having passed oh
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  • 535 5 I THE silent jungles of Sara--1 wak are beginning to ring with a sound that I grows louder every day— the sound of the tree-fel-ler's axe. The world is crying out for softwood timber, and 1 there is plenty in Sarawak, but the jungle
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  • 323 5  -  By Don Doanc A penniless German princes A i.s living in a trailer caravan instead cf a castle nnd earning her meagre living b; painting pictures. Rile Is Princes.; Alexandra Victoria "i Bchlcstarig Holste-m-Giuccksburg. daughter-in-lay/ Of Germay s last Kaiser. She bi so noor she even
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  • 428 5 WHEN ushers at a big redbrick house in Copenhagen's "Slotshclmsgad the Danish Whitehall, announce that "the Minister is in reference.'' they mean that year-old Mis. Fanny Jensen is listening to some houaewife complaint about faulty ki'.chen pans or the scarcity *.i mophem: For Fanny Jensen, Min-str; witneut
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    • 122 5 P. <£ C. OVERSEAS BANDSPREAO vf ~im/^ OR TONg QUALtT^ This superb instrument produced by G.E.C. engineers, represent! th* lavt AT WOr- rtad o f r pn <•»<!*- Ht many B.C. 4978 A. C. outstanding features include all the SINGAPORE PRICE $7SO/"- technical achievements ami reAneFEDERATIOr* Mice tni/ m nt
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  • 1875 6  - ORSON WELLES REBEL IN HOLLYWOOD WILL HE CONFOUND HIS CRITICS AGAIN? PORTRAIT OF A AGENIUS BY OSWALD HENRY MALAYA has yet to see ITI Welles, the genius. The man, who has dominated the silver screen so recently, is not the man who made film history 10 years ago. The Orson
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  • 19 6 t t ot filmland's "Te< Ihmcolc r Qneen," handle* a *in ß i»* Baff dad"—» desert timuer.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 42 6 RAFFLES HOTEL TODAY TOMORROW DORIS GEDDES I PRESENTS I "A FASHiON PREVIEW FOR 1950" Tickets which include Luncheon $5/from Raffles Hotel's Office. 1 "commencing at noon BunilAy 29th by request at h\.10 Frank Plckiord his J Orchestra a specially selected programme. 1
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    • 46 6 yWas™ t l j MISTER H/LARy VWO MATCH FOR MY I BET WW NEVER TH' *>USE! Kg JRtwHSWXw SORTA KNOCKEP HIM OFF WS g WELL.. K-eLcI MAT? AAUCH I TWO *J!<*HTS TO 0B WITH Vf (TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEEK) LAIM X I*%VM>X hy Harry A
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    65 7 v oi Cortland, New York, USA. has designed this two-man submarine to facilitate rescue of crews trapped in sunken submarines. With one man aboard it can stay down for 64 hours. »Hh two men for 32 hours. Photos show: At the top submarine ?s seen in dry
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  • 647 7  -  by H: W. BLAKES LEE A.P. NEW YORK. WHAT is the Hydrogen Bomb—the deadly explosive being talked about throughout the world today? The bomb is merely a lot of hydrogen gas which explodes by the simple process of fusing hydrogen atoms together to form helium gas.
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  • 154 7 EXHIBITIONS of "Visual and Mechanical Aids to Education" prepared by the British Council, will show teachers and educational;.-' in the Middle East the different media used in Britain to enliven teaching and make vivid and lasting impressions on the pupil. Exhibits include wall charts and posters,
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  • 256 7 THAI wnrrs can bfi c h a r in c R u'vitv in i\ hiir> tale. 3raa.il mou— ol celis grow ing 014 th hfctti, they ar ■cie- a 11 f I ny y Known as pappilan- i n i up «in the Longing u Willi
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  • 115 7 MARK ANTHONY. Cincinratti Zoo s 13-ft. crocodile, started to hit the bottle the mcmettt he got teething pains. Somebody hurled it into his t ink the day before Mark shed his front teeth and started to grow new cnes. He used the smooth glass as a teether and
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  • 294 7 A 199-foot television tower la to be erected on top cf the world's tallest building—the 102-storey Empire State Building. Two German experts have worked out a chemical substance which makes deep-sea diving to depth of over 18,--000 feef'no technical problem any more." Mesons are the force
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  • 639 7 BRISKLY burning as toe New Year opened was a doctor's controversy abov.t a drug called deoxycortone acetate, now being used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Deoxycortone is a synthtic hormone, allied to the costly but miraculous cortisone. Both drugs originate in the adrenal cortex, outer parf
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  • 64 7 U.P. SOFIA, Thurs. —"A rar« arcncoiogical und, one of the greatest in Europe in recent times," has been unearthly in the Balkan, Mountain Town of Panagyurir.hte. The discovery was maMr when some worxers were dig ging a ditch. Three of them by mere luck upturned on aitcr uncthtr
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    • 129 7 JACK ARMSTRONG by Bob Scbocnke |l THINK MAYBE ITS A I TS CARLOS RIGHT? T HAVE IMEANWHILE.. >£W/ FIRST THE BULL ANP AFFERENT FEELING THAN I NEVER BEEN iN LOVE WITH j NOW THIS I'LL NEVER 'w, everwa! he \tW I ''*f". GOTTA SAY 15 YOU U OF TIMES. >
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  • 2029 8  -  FIRST PRIZE IN THE POLISH SHORT STORY CONTEST OF 'NA STRAZY', JERUSALEM 1946. by Andrew Corvin-Romanski Translated By Aga H. Mundell, r happened at a small Russian railway station lost mcngst the snow-clad stepes of Middle Asia, where I -aited for my train for two hole days and
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  • 58 8 Tho Communist sponsored Socialist Laity Party" in the Russiar r of Berlin have introduce J voluminous amount of literature, into the sehoc'roo". sot Berlin, and the walls rce weH decorated with photographs of the Russian leaders. Photo shows: Children member* of the "Youau; •wteace-ffu" admire a-poster of
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  • 80 8 U.P. SYDNEY. Patrick O Loary. at lOt). be one of the oldest men in Australia and tbe'only one to have fought in the American Civil War. He's living in a home now. •Txesn't talk much as a rule, hut ence in a while can be
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  • 43 8 U.P. SYDNEY—American popular compositions top honours in the "Ten Top Tunes of 1949 In Australia. Sydney radio station gave the year's lead to: 1. —Buttons and Bows. 2. —Slow Boot to China. 3. —-Riders in the sky.—UP.
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  • 509 8 I O U I S JACQUINOT. France's Pensions Minister, feels strongly aboiK his job. He was severely wounded in both wars On a short visit last weekend to see how Britain handles its victims of war. M. Jacquinot lound proof that the British, also, are feeling more
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  • 182 8 Reuter. LONDON. Tues.—The suggestion that the world might be atx tier plat-. > It there were more mad- men vva- made by a lend ing London evening nrw\ paper recent > S Commenting on th* agreement ot the London physician, Doctor Row I ktrain,
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    • 263 8 VII' FLI.Vr by Michael O'Mall y and Ralph Lane G TTIAKES I r TWEN HE G AVE A PACKAGE OF THE BIG "fl IMA?S KHgHI. I SENT r (-SOWL. BASIL CHRIS* L BLLS TO HIS DAUGHTER TO DELIVER TO RAPP LUCY HOME WITH TACKY TDPHER CHAN6ED HIS ikl>vr«93w; FOR HIM.
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  • 560 9 TRICOLOUR, COLONY FLAG FLY SIDE BY SIDE Tribune Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Indian community took the day off yesterday to celebrate the founding of the Indian Republic. All over the town, the green, white and orange tricolour flag of India flew over shops, offices and private homes. In
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  • 431 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. MR Justice E. N .Taytor at the Kuala Lumr.ur Supreme Court today, gave judgment for $5,000 in favour of Mr. A. R. Vythilinga Pillay, of Klang, at the conclusion of a civil suit in which Mr. Pillay sued the Malay Mail Press
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  • 150 9 A young Chinese. Teh Boon Tong. who was sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rotan for armed robbery, had his sentence enhanced in the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday. Teh appealed against the sentence, but the Court
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  • 40 9 The Pei Hwa Afternoon English School of 7j mile Bukit Timah Road has been struck off the Register of Schools with effect from Dec. 31. 1949. under the Registration of Schools Ordinance (Chapter 139) Regulation 45 (1).
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  • 29 9 uenerai Sir Jonn naiuing. Commander-in-Chief Far East Land Forces, will broadcast on operations in Malaya over the Blue Network of Radio Malaya tonight at M 0 p.m.
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  • 153 9 THE Johore Indian community distributed gifts of ice-cream, sweets and biscuits to more than 350 Inmates of the Johore State Leper Camp at the sth inUe Sci'dai Road yesterday. The Indian inmates prayed before a temporary altar containing a portrait of the late Mahatma Ghandi
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  • 294 9 Tribune Staff Reporter. KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. AFFERING his greetings and good wishes to "our great and friendly neighbour, India," on the occasion of the inauguration of the Republic of India at a function held at the Selangor Indian Association, today, the High Commissioner, Federation
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  • 36 9 The Tamil Brotherhood's Indian Talentime show which is to be held to celebrate the Indian Independence Day celebrations will open at the Ceylon Tamils' Association Hall in Handy Road at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday.
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  • 42 9 The Municipal housing estate at Woodleigh is to have its own electricity suostation at a total cost of $102.000. A recommendation *o this effect will come up for Commissioners' sanction when they meet at ihe end of this month.
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  • 36 9 jOHorifc: BAHKC. Thurs.— Mr. V.W. FolweM-Evans. Staff Officer of Special Constabulary, Federation of Malaya, has been appointed Deputy C.P.O. for Johore Bahru. He succeeds Mr. G.B. Folliot who is transfened to Kluang as O.S.P.C
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  • 60 9 Johore UMNO is now getting busy tions for the forthcoming UMNO General Assembly schedule for the last week of February in Muar. UMNO President. Dato Onn bin Jaafar is reported to be making personal contacts with the Party's various branches in the State in connection with
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  • 29 9 Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. talks to Mrs. J. Payne, wife of the Australian Trade Commissioner, and her daughter Margaret, at yesterday's Australia Day reception at Tanglin Club.
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  • 560 9 Singh, a Post Office Savings Bank clerk faced three charges of criminal breach of trust in the Second Magistrate's Court yesterday. He is alleged to have cheated three different Savings Bank depositors of sums totalling $71.01. He was alternatively charged with cheating the depositors
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  • 53 9 General William "Wild Bill" Donovan, legal adviser to General Claire Chennault's Civil Air Transport concern, passed through Singapore yesterday on his way to Jakarta. General Donovan was wartime head of the Office or Strategic Services, the U.S. organisation which ran the secret service and many stranee adventures
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  • 244 9 Tribune Staff Reporter THE peoples of South East Asia and of Australia should be good comrades—for their interests and security are bound up together. The Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald gave this advice yesterday at the Australia Day reception given by Mr. J. Payne, the
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  • 40 9 JOKOHE UAHKU, Tnurs. —Pleading guilty to two charges in the Magistrate's Court today, 42-year-old Quek Kin Ching of Ulu Tiram was fined $5 for carrying an extra passenger and $2 for failing to wear a taxi-driver's arm-hand.
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  • 219 9 k lone bandit, identified as an ex-MPAJA captain and a bandit leader with $5 000 on his head, was killed in Kulim area by an army patrol last Wednesday. Another patrol operating In the same area located a large terrorists' camp capable of holding 50 to 60
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 120 9 UNWANTED HAIR KKMOVED EASILY FROM FACE OK BODY BY USING TRICHO WATERS No. I for face or body use $2.50 No. to kill hair roots and to stop further hair growth i>2.54l Postage 50 Cts. extra Specify Tricho for face, body or root* wb.*n ordering. CHAKI CO., (Post Box J23).
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    • 33 9 WHAT HAS 1950 IN STOKE FOII YOU? MADAME FLORENCE by her wonderful power of in tuition will guide you safely through 1900. Phone for Appointment ***** Flat 'M' Heeren Bidg. Orchard Rd. S'pcre.
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    • 117 9 ALLEY OOP h 7 V T Hamlin p UK ABXEIt by Al Capp r- V7 rTZZZZ \JF^~r ~£s f f ul combine th' sais we coin' 'best -OolD y"5 SO*»& L^t^T t AH'.t A SIC I MAH DEATH, BUT WMUT MORE IS THAR TO >VOO GOOD> MAX V wlt>i3CH V
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  • 169 10  -  By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winners. IPOH, Today. The going will be perfect for tomorrow's races, the concluding day of the Perak Turf Club January meeting, and my best bets, subject to scratchings. are Tempest and Belgium. Nothing was set against the
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  • 170 10 Fo/ the first time in Malayan badminton there will be a match between the University of Malaya and Combined Singapore Schools, when there will be three singles and four doubles and two women's doubles at the Clerical Union Hall on Sunday at 2.00 p.m.
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  • 423 10 Reuter AAP. AUCKLAND, Thursday. MALAYANS have not lost any time in getting down to business on arrival at Ardmore Camp, 20 miles from the city. In this peaceful comfortable spot under the watchful eye of Manager Strickland, they spent the afternoon weightlifting and seemed
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  • 31 10 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. In the Rugby Union county championship, East Midlands beat North Midlands a Bedford by 28 points to eight in 'the replay to decide the group.— Renter.
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  • 249 10 Getting their runs at almost one every minute. Raffles Institution yesterday defeated the Australian schoolboys by 19 luns on the school ground. Declaring at 91 for eight, four of the early batsmen gaining double figures, the home team dismissed the visitors for 72. Gopal Knshnan being deadly
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  • 67 10 The Indian Recreation Ciuh will play a friendly game of soccer against H M.S. I tomorrow at Farrer Park, at 5.15 The I.R.C. players wi lbe selected Horn tne fotlOW'titf K. Narayana, C. Dorairatnim, j%. Pazak, 8. Veloo. B. Mmhiih, M. Gani, T. Nadarajah. S. Murugasu, N. Paramasivam.
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  • 35 10 The motor vessel. Dendighshire defeated the Dentorlich 4—2 in a soccer match at Fort Canning yesterday. Shanks, Bovd. Robinson and Douglas notched for the Dendighshire. Pranson and Vr Ui scored foi the Dentorlich,
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  • 33 10 The Fathwl Karib Club dtfaated the Chinese Sporting Association six-nil at football at Farrer Park yesterday. The scorers were Marzukri and Ahmad, v.-) o netted two goals each. Aman and Dollah.
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  • 96 10 Promoter Razak has received a cable from Tom Maguirc, Sni., informing him that George Sands, elder brother of Able Sands, now in Singapore, will arrive here within a fortnight. It is understood that Razak is trying to secure a worthy opponent for the Australian who
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  • 272 10 JJONTE CARLO. Thursday. British drivers, Sydney Allard G. Warburton, won the braking and acceleration test of the .Monte Carlo rally and were lying seventh after points for the 2,000 mile run and the test had been computed. No British drivers can. however, win the
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  • 64 10 Fiom the following will be elected the side to represent the Town Rangers Sports Club at soccer against the C.V.M.A. at Farrer Park on January 28: R. Murukaiyan, S.S. Ibrahim, P. Suppiah, Chiang Fock Heng, Kwan Chan Seng, Charlie Tay, K. Dharmpal. A. Syed Sultan. R.
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  • 64 10 At the third annual general meeting of the Social B.P. the following were elected office-bearers for 1950. President: Mr Yeo Thiam Huat; vice-president. Mr. Lim Soon Hcng; hon. secretary, Mr. Lim Teck Chwee; hon. treasurer. Mr. Poh Kirn Teck; hon. sports captain. Mr. Lee Siong Gim; committee,
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 689 10 SHIPPING EVERETT ORIENT LINE EVEREVf" sS LINE For H'kong, Kccl'.ng. Tarmn. For Hongkong, Japan. "Leneverett' Gdris. 8/9 ♦'Star ttctelgeusc'.' 6/8 Feb. "Bradeverett'- 8 Fete. For Penang, Madras, Colombo, For Penang, Rangoon, Madras. Cochin, Bombay, Karachi, Calcutta. j Bahrein, Kowett, Basrah, "Rebevcrett" 7/9 Feb Khoramshahr "Noreverctt" 23/23 Fet. "Nordstjcman" 3/6 Feb.
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    • 217 10 ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD Aden, Port Said, Rotterdam Amsterdam. S pore P. Sham Penang KAMERLINGH ONNES 6/8 Feb. 9 Feb. 10 Feb OVERYSEL 14/16 Feb. 17 Feb. 18 Feb. Agents: ROTTERDAM TRADING CO. (M) LTD. Shipping Dept Tel: 5071. Ext. 19. JAVA NEW YORK SAILINGS Royal Rotterdam Lloyd Holland-America Line Nederland
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    • 558 10 SHIPPING ISTHMIAN S. S. CO* Co HALIFAX BOSTON, NEW YORK, BALTIMORE via SUEZ direct A hpo accepting cargo for Gulf porta. B'pom P. B'aam Penary Steel Age" 30 Jan /4 Feb. 5/6 Feb. "Steel Designer" 15/20 Feb. 21/22 Feb. 21 »t. "Steel Seafarer" 12/17 Mar. 18/19 Mar. 21 To LOB
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  • 5125 11 Class 3, D,v. I- 6 F. KIRRA 9.00 WOM 15-10-49 Penang 813 Furs. (Tulloh) Div. 3 Blue Eyes 2nd 1-21. Going Very Heavy. TENTH 3-12-49 Ipoh, 8.07 R Str. (Tulloh) Div. l Won by Baba 1.04. Going Heavy WON 10-12-49 Ipoh. 8.03 6 (Tait) Div. L
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  • 615 11 Won by Barham. 1.02-1/5. Going Good. SECOND 21-1-50 Ipoh. 9.1.1 5 Furs. (Charles) Dv. 5. Won 1 > Jimmy Boy i rnin. 20 sees GoiflC Perfect. IMrfi Mr, FURY 9.00 DEAD-HEATED with Fro.; t 12-49 Ipoh. 8.05 6 Furs. (Tui loh> Div. 2 2nd. Spring
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  • 898 11 HORSES. CLASS L 1)1 V. I—<i Fl RLONC.S. RSiV 1 I Wj Loke Tai Nam Turiey NEW V ERsF 8.13 "Winmore Stable 1 ft Mrs. Richardson Yong rJ rS 10 Mr Yea P Hock Hoe Manning HXSL.**? 9 August Stable*' Rodger* SONG XOH Mr. Cheong Thiam Chye Tons
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  • 536 12 WESTERLING U.P. SOMEWHERE IN WEST rAPTAIN Pnul 'Turko' Westerlh*, r-ncg-de Dutch tender, predated today Uut L h-rge se-.le nghfng wo -.1 b T •<< w t sw in West -lava. ••I don't think it will last a bout three "I know I'm going to
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  • 33 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— One hundred and eight suspects have been arrested in the State of Johore during the past week ending yesterday. There were 104 Chinese, two Malaya and two Indians.
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  • 64 12 A.P. NEW DELHI, Thurs.— Sixty-one year-old Pandit •Jawaharlal Nehru, India's Premier, regularly ran n mile or two morning until "fairly late in life," he said during a ioundntion s'one 'aytng ceremony at India's new National Snorts Stadium in New Delhi. He even kept up His ranrning exercises
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  • 68 12 BANGKOK, Thurs. Soviet Russia has initiated machinery exports to Siam with the first consignment cf 400 sewin" machines. The consignment is now in transit in the Mediterranean after overland shipment through Central Europe. Simultaneously Soviet trade representatives in Bangkok have announced that several kinds of
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  • 111 12 An interesting and inspiring talk was given by Mrs. A.J. Moore at the Y.W.C.A. Raffles Quay, yesterday. Mrs. Moore, of Atlanta. Georgia. U.S.A.. is the wife of Bishop Arthur Moore who is in Singapore to preside over the Methodist Ccntial Conferonce which cpens on February
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  • 59 12 Reuter. LONDON, Thurs. The Financial Times Singapore correspondent today predicted that controls may operate again in tne Malayan tin-producing industry within two years. The industry had started the new year full ol hope that for a year at least it would be allowed to operate
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  • 146 12 Reuter-AAP BANGKOK, Thursday. The United States on high diplomatic level has requested Australia to improve relations with Siam. m l: i~l It, is learned from reliable diplomatic sources here that the United States has urged improved AustralianSiamese relations as a strengthening influence in the
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  • 13 12 Mr. and Mrs Se.w Ron, Hoe- who oently. The bnde 23j&*%fgSJT*'
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  • 243 12 A.P. and Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday. PHINESE Nationalist diplomats C "eve Communist leader RnsX for worship* to move a Red China mva.s.on army deleeate to the United The Natmnahrt chrnf dele^ ja !£SSF£JS£ Reds hi' any invasion attempt and Z U fo»m o
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  • 90 12 Reuter. HYDERABAD, Thurs. Mir Osman Ali Khan. Nizam of Hyderabad, once reputed to be the richest man in the world, escaped unhurt today when an unknown assailant threw a iiand grenade at his car. The Nizam wcus returning to his palace after taking oath of office
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  • 276 12 GENERAL V.M.C.A.: French class 5.30 pm. German class 6.30 p.m., Air. Bailie John McAslan to speak on "Local Government and the Citizen" at 8 p.m. Y.W.C.A.: Town Pioneers meet at 4 p.m. at Fort Canning. WKSLEY MKTHOniST YOI'TH FELLOWSHIP: Debate on •Classical Music is better than Jazz"
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  • 402 12 THE shops listed below have put up sign mg themselves to sell sugar and cigarettes at correct prices Since it is not possible for tne Tribune to cover all Rhopa m Singapore, tho® i join the campaign are requested to wtitt- or trephine, the News
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  • 19 12 HOCKEY: BCRC Ass.stam at Hon* < SINGAPORE TI Kr annual genera! meeting Chamber t»f O Fullerton Building 5.11
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 593 12 SITUATIONS VACANT The Singapore Improvement Trust Invites applications fcr the following appointments:— (a) Assistant Engineer (Reinforced Concrete). (b) Quantity Surveyor. (c) Assistant Planning Officer (Applications). (d) Assistant Planning Officer (Liaison) (c) Assistant Planning Officer (Engineering) (f) Assistant Estates Officer 2. Candidates should not be over 32 years of age. Appo
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    • 669 12 SITS. VACANT Applications are invited fcr appointment as a Mechanical Engineer in the Drainage and Irrigation Department The appointment will be in the scale $430 x 30-6Vu/Bar/ 720 x 30-900. and eubject to a satisfactory probationary period of 3 years. Initial salary is dependent on experience and war service. Approved
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    • 504 12 NOTICES OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED (Incorporated in the Colony of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Interim Dividend of $125 cts. per share, less 20 per cent taconrf' Tax, has been declared by the Directors for the year ended 31st December. 1949. payable to the Members on the Register
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    • 70 12 Blood Bank Group A Group B Group AB iiruup U 2 No. of donors y-O nr.< No. ot donorB exp. cU* 5. HOROSCOPE S, HOROSCOPIC Consultations Palm Readings, lac by the Incorporated Astro" S. R. SHASTRY, r***. Fellow of the Federation of Astrologers, Ltd.. (Lon. NOW on final visit at
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