Malaya Tribune, 18 February 1950

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    60 1 MALAYA Tribune LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTEPNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 5811/3 Nfat Una BY 77/5 PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Published simultaneously at B ingapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1950 TEN CENTS. EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON XpPREBRNTATTVB B. Maurice Glover, Malaya Tribune Office,
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    US. Makes Atom Poison Gas
    122 1 U.P. WASHINGTON, Fri. tentative James E. van Zandt -aid today that the United States was going ahead with the development of radioactive poison gas and other atrmic v. capons in addition to the atom bomb. Van Zandt. a member of the joint Congressional Atomic Energy
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    NO MORE U.S. SHIPS UNDER FOREIGN FLAGS
    77 1 Reuter. NEW YORK. Fri.—Mr. Joseph Curren, chief of American National Maritime Union, said here that President Truman had promised that no more American ships would be transferred to foreign flags. Mr. Curren made this report to the union after a talk in Washington
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    HAIFA REFINERY
    28 1 U.P. LONDoU, in. fctnUsh Financial quarters toaay urged Britain to exert all influence to enable a resumption of work in the Haifa refinery without delay. —U.P.
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    Best Bets For Today
    40 1 By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winners. KUALA LUMPUR. Today.—The going for todays races will be very good. The three best bets should be TOBOGGAN, BONNIE PRINCE and SAILING. (For full selections see page 6).
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    SIAM TO USE HELICOPTERS ON BANDITS
    60 1 A.P. BANGKOK. Fri.—Lt.-Gen. Chart Trakarn Kosol, Siamese police chief wno visited Singapore and Kuala Lumpur recently to study police methods intends going one batter than the Malayan police. He wants to buy a helicopter for the Siamese police. The helicopter will b* used in
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    NEW GOVERNOR GETS C.M.G.
    77 1 U.P. IiONDON. Fri.— Anthony Foster Abell appointed Governor and Commander in Chief of Sarawak Is made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, stated the London Gazette tonight. j He was appointed Governor last month succeeding Duncan Stewart who died last December
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    U.S. TO ARM ASIAN COUNTRIES BUT MALAYA IS NOT INCLUDED?
    327 1 BUT MALAYA IS NOT INCLUDED? A.P. WASHINGTON, Fridnv. A "J?? ma > soon flowing to the United Htates of Indonesia, lndu-f nina, Shim and India as part of tin ftcoeler.»ted effort to h;ilt the spread of Communism in the Far
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    SONGKRAM'S 4-POINT PLAN TO CURB REDS
    122 1 A.P. BANGKOK. Fri.—Siam is ready to put into operation a tar-reaching plan to counter any Communist threat, Premier Phibun Songkram, who also is chairman of the Defence Board, disclosed. The plan provides that: 1. All high ranking officials keep watch on their subordinates to
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    FRENCH STRIKE FIZZLES OUT
    123 1 Reuter. PARIS. Frl. A two-hour rail strike and miners stride, called by the Communistled General Confederation of Labour in France today, fizzled out. Two-thirds of the miners and all surface workers in the northern coal fields were at work, according to the Ministry of Industrial Production
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    Urquhart Will Be Here Till October
    125 1 A.P. LONDON, Fri. The War Office announced last night that MajorGeneral R. E. Urqunart will become G.O.C. Sudan and Eritrea after a seven-momh spell of duty in Malaya. Gen. Urquhart who led the first British air division a. Arnheto is to take over the
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    Vogeler Was Drugged Says U.S.
    80 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Fri. The State Department today accused the Hungarian Government of violating a promise that Robert Vogeler. an American, would be given a fair trial on espionage and sabotage charges. In a statement, the State Department alleged that Vogeler might have been drugged or
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    ANTI-SEMITE TO FACE COURT
    68 1 Reuter. BONN, Fri. Wolfgang Hedler, whose acquHtal t\r an alleged anti-Semitic speech caused strikes and big protest meetings in West Germany, is to face a denazification court next Friday. The Schleswig Holstcin Ministry of the 1 Interior announced touay there would be two charges, le of
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    RUSSIAN FIGHTER
    23 1 A.P. WAtsrliWtjrON, Ml Russia has a jet fighter plane ranking with the U.S. B-86 fighter which holds the world speed record.—A.P.
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    BEAVERBROOK THUNDERS FOR MINIMUM WAGE
    65 1 A.P. LONDON, Fri.—Lord Beaverbrook is gingering up Britain's election campaign by introducing a political platform of his own. He is using his mass circulation morning national Daily Express and his Evening Standard to thunder vi; a £6 weekly minimum waRC 2 An Empire first policy.
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    TIN: MARKET IMPROVES
    57 1 U.P. LONDON. Fri. Forward tin improved today by 10 shillings to £*****/8 while spot advanced five shillings to £509-7/8. The closing prices at the morning session were: Spot £599-3/4 buyers and £600 sellers with business at £600. nrno t Three months—£sB6-1/4 buyers and £586-I*2 sellers with business
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    RUMANIA GREETS U.S.I.
    14 1 A.P. BUCHAREST, Fri. Rumania tonignt recognised the United States of Indonesia.—
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    BRITON PLEADS GUILTY IN SPY TRIAL
    220 1 Reuter. BUDAPEST, Friday. EDGAR Sanders, British business man, pleaded guilty to spying and sabotage against Hungary in a Budapest court today With American Robert Vogeler he was charged with organising "economic sabotage" and using diplomatic channels to send espionage reports out of Hungary. Grey-haired
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    'OLD AGE SECRET'
    27 1 Reuter. MELBOURNE, Fri.—Recipe for old age given by 90-year-old Henry Hancock of Melbourne is: Beef, beer and the Bible--with an occasional night playing 500."—Reuter.
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    ROYAL VACATION
    20 1 A.P. Tttfc HAciUE, Fit Juliana will leave next Monday on a vacation in Sankt Anton, Austria. —A P.
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    Britain Restricts Oil Imports
    140 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Fri—British restrictions against imports of American fuel and petrol have been put into effect—despite United States protests—British officials said here today. The new regulations came into force yesterday. They were originally due to be imposed on Jan: 1. but were delayed owing to objections
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    New Arrangements To Sell Empire Tin To America
    283 1 A.P. LONDON, Friday AN important official statement is likely to be made in London shortly on arrangements for making Empire tin available to the United States strategic stockpile, official sources said today. Tne announcement is not likely to be long delayed, the
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    IN-LAW TROUBLE?
    28 1 A.P. i-LHiuuu'fh, fri. The Marquis of Milford Haven said today he and his American bride do not intend to visit his motner during their honeymoon.—A P.
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    CHURCHILL'S WARNING on SOCIALISM
    186 1 U.P. LONDON, Fri. WINSTON Churchill said in an election campaign broadcast tonight that the Labour Government is trying to make Britain into a Socialist super state "owning everybody and employing everything." It was the final Conservative Party broadcast before next Thurday's election. Prime Minister Clement Attlee
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    REDS IN BURMA STOP PRESS
    42 1 WASHINGTON, hri— Mr. George Aicu.iee, Asn;i. wecrevary o) a vale ior Scar Eastern a.i*d African aliairs, told a press conference today that though conditions in Burma were unstab!e. Communism did not present a majn- problc m there.
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    THE AMERICAN TRADE SCENE
    520 2 Cars Sell Imports Up More Oio USIS. GALES of passenger cars and trucks in the United States during January set an all-time industry record, according to a majority of dealers and executives polled at a National Automobile Dealers' Association meeting in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Reporting
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    MORE JUTE
    54 2 Reuter. NEW DELHI. Friday—Jute production in India has increased by 20 per cent over i s total quantity of 1.660.000 tens in 1946-47, according to tie Minister for Food and Agriculture. The Minister told Patlianent that 2,720,000 bales of jJte were pioduced here in 1949, as against the
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    U.S. Tyre Prices Will Rise Soon
    278 2 USIS. THE high price of rubber and low cost of tyres gave America's major rubber companies many headaches in 1949. according to a dispatch to the Wall Street Journal. Tyre price boosts are expected industry earnings prospects this year, however. The major companies announced
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    Closed
    21 2 The Malayan share market was closed yestrrda\ for Chinese New Year. The foUowing are the price* last announced on Thursday.
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    Siam's First 'Free' Rice Exports
    102 2 A.P. BANGKOK, Friday. IN the first month of "free export* Siam ahipped 100,000 tons of rice to 13 ffcrent countries in the Far Hast and Europe during- Jar.'^ary. The Siamese Commerce Innster, Phra Boribhand Vuidhakit, said Singapore purchased 1,000 tens of glu- .is rice during
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    RUBBER OUTPUT
    61 2 Turquand. Youngs. McAulifle Co.. announce the following crop figures for January. Alor Gajah Rubber Estate Limited 25.000 lb. Ayer Panas Rubber Estate Limited 114.000 Glenealy Plantations Limited 78.000 Kluang Rubber Company Limited 66.000 Pajam Limited 180.000 Tambalak Rubber Estates Limited 33,400 Talisman Rubber Company Limited 36,800 Teluk Anson
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    838 2 Singapore, Thurs. INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 11.90 12.25 xb., xd Alex. Brick* Pre/. 2.40 2.50 Ord. 2.20 2.25 8.8. If?trol 34/6 35 6 B.M. Trustees 7.80 8.50 Con. Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/3 Ord. 16/3 16/6 E. Utd. Assur. 39 25 40,25 Est Trust bed. Dispensary 8.50 7.00
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    India Sells More Cloth For Dollars
    104 2 NEW DELHI. FridayDevaluation of the Rupee has resulted in a large increase in India's textile cxpotts. From 110.000,000 yards in the first eight months of last year, exports rose to 284.000,000 yards in the first five months following devaluation. Another factor which contributed to
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    RENT PROPOSALS UPSET THE TENANTS
    193 3 CINGAPORE tenants of houses, which belong to 13 pre-war landlords, have been upset by some of the suggestions made by the committee appointed to make recommendations for the revision of the existing Rent Control Ordinance. Yesterday Tribune readers telephoned to complain as too sweeping the
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    50 BOYS HAVE A THIN TIME
    162 3 FIFTY hungry Malay students in the schools and colleges of Cairo. Egypt, are having a thin time. They haven't enough money to pay for their schooling or for their food. And they can't return home—much as many of them would like to— because of
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    Typhoid—A Warning
    65 3 About twenty of typhoid, the majority ot which arc children, have been rop:rted in New Bridge Road. Cantonment Road, Kepxii Read. Anson Road, Tc ok Ayer, Cross Stroe* nd Outram Road in tHI China lown Area. The Heal.t.l Authorities have warned especially children, not to cat ice-cream, popciclt-s,
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    OVERSEAS POSTAGE INCREASED
    222 3 Postage rates to ..iui.).« outside Malaya (except Sarawak North Borneo and Brunei will be increased on February 2;:. The new surface mail rstes will be as follows: COMMONWEALTH Letters: first ounce !2 cents, additional ounce 8 cents. Postcards tingle S cents, rer-ly paid 1« cents. Printed papers:
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    U.S. INVESTMENT
    37 3 Nr-W YORK, Friday-Ame-rican industry plans t> inv< -t U3512.-100.000.000 In new plants and equipment uurnig lftSo, a survey by McGrawHill showed. The publishing company said this is 13 p.-r cent less than similiar 1949 expenditures.
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    $25,000-GIFT FOR STADIUM
    57 3 MALACCA. Fii. Government has decided to give $25,000 to g the sports stadium to be built at Kuol. Park. The news was given by the President Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, to Municipal Commissioners at their recent meeting. Meanwhile Commissioners said that they would conside i a
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    MAYFAIR OFFERS REWARD
    307 3 THE Mayfair Musical and Dramatic Association of Singapore yesterday switched its attentions to matters nautical when it offered a reward to anyone, who could disclose the identity of the five Americans and eight Indians who, according to the acting Captain. Mr. Yang Soon Ec, boarded the vessel
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    WHY NOT WRITE A PLAY?
    119 3 THERE is a shortage of plays witn a oackground of Malayan folk-lore which might be suitable for the local schools and the stage. To fill this gap the Singapore Teachers Union has offered three prizes $100. $50. and $25 for the three best plays written
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    Full Press For 'Flying Cowshed'
    80 3 ELEVEN cows in calf and a young bull have been flown 1.325 miles from Coootihagcn to Athens for the k.ng cf Greece dairy farms at Tatoi. R ■< spokesman of the Dutch j v Hue, X.L.M.. said in Singapore yesterday: "News cameras and pressmen turned
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    FOOD GIFTS
    57 3 MALACCA. PriJ" At 0. meetfcig of the Malicca Settlement W< fare Committee hi >d recently, the Social Welfare O liicer. Malacca, Mr:\ X Cunsdell, reported that ill January 534 lood parcels costLng $'2.Vi70. were given away t the poor. Of this. 459 parcels went to Central District, 60
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    MAKE 'H-BOMB'? IT'S EASY, SAY OUR 'CHEMISTS'
    358 3 THE 'H-bomb' is not news to the budding chemists of the University of Malaya. Yesterday with charts, equations and the formulae of Professor Albert Einstein, they showed the 300 grat of Singapore, who attended their exhibition of Physical Science that Malaya too knows
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    UNTAPPED ENERGY
    588 4 THE enthusiastic response given to the AntiBandit Month should provide food for thought to those people who are in the habit of talking a great deal about the apathy of the Malayan people. Over 321,000 people have signed on, and the number is still increasing. Of course, it
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    CEYLON BELIEVES IN BUILDING FROM SCRATCH
    1556 4  -  By SYLVAIN MANGEOT Reuter. COLOMBO, CEYLON, with a firmly established elected government, a stable political situation, a people anxious and I ready to cooperate in govern- ment plans for development, a "reasonably sound domestic economy and a favourable balance of trade with the dollar
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    PREVIEW OF BRITAIN,S GENERAL ELECTION
    1064 4  -  By R. Norris Reuter. W TrT LONDON. ITH the General Election only a few days off. political agents of all parties here are keenly sounding out public opi nion in several voting areas which may hold the answer to the question all Britain is asking
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    TREASON TRIALS END IN FRANCE
    901 4  -  by CARL HARTMAN A.F. PARIS, FRANCE has just about finished trying collaborators with the Nazis, more than five years after liberation. Among 8,000 still in Jail is 93-year-old ex-Marsha! Henri Philippe Petain, the beloved hero of Verdun and the hated chief of the Vichy regime.
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    SATURDAY SHOW ROUNDUP
    923 5  -  By OSWALD HENRY NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER" iayi —rms tin i d n!m teaming the aquatic star, Esther Williams, with good looking, Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban, should prove good v*'ue for money. Packed with eye-filling spectacle and garnished with usual trimmings that Hollywood alone can give such extravaganzas, it
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    THE TERROR HAS HIT THE CHINESE HARDEST
    355 5 Dato Tan's Nen Year Message: KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. IN a special Chinese New Year Message, Dato Tan Cheng Lock said: This is the Chinese New Year, a time specially significant to the Chinese. But during this period we cannot but feel that our
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    A ROYAL TEA
    29 5 Singapore Arabs wiil honour the Sultan of Siak with a teaparty at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Feb. 28. The Sultan is on a visit her<\
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    Look Back On The Old Year
    250 5 BROADCASTING on the significance of the Chinese New Year, Legislative Councillor, Mr. P. C. AuYong said: liooking back we perceiv> prominently in our mind two outstanding events of prime importance to the Chinese Community in Malaya. They are the establishment of the Malayan Chinese
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    THEY ENJOYED EVERY BIT OF IT
    282 5 THERE were sounds of revelry yesterday as Singapore celebrated the Chinese New Year. The Marine Parade was packed. The swimming pools were packed. The cinemas were packed. So, too, the* cabarets and the Botanical Gardens. So too was the Raffles Museum. It was packed
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    OPERATION 'ELECTION'
    33 5 Four cx-scrviccmen will contest the seat" for North East Leicester in the forthcoming U.K General election. They are: Terence Donovan (Lab.), M.V. Moroncy (Lib.). H.A. Taylor (Con.) and Fred Westacott (Communist;.
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    BANDITS BURN LABOUR LINES
    245 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Seventeen armed bandits yesterday burned down a 45-room labourers' kongsi at Sungei Dua division. Tebong Estate in the Malacca Area. They stole a large number of identity cards. Five bandits ran out of a house in the Kuantan area when police approached. The
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      105 5 LFL ABAE1I by A1 Lapp s&zzuni r issKSs^sspsLtf TH' TABLE O U/tairf ,3r LEAVE. him M foiiTTER i WMAR DID NO' S l ON THE T > CASE MAY BE/T IT WERE J THJABLE. HVT.V ALONE SAY TW-*UfC*fr PLATTER— < /*>»/« GRUESOME, BUT, AH IIIFV OOP l, y V.T II«mlin
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    RACE CARD
    1013 6 The Selangor Turf Club Gold, Cup meeting beguis in Kuala Lumpur to day when ifte lollowmg races will be run: DOUBLE TOTES: KACIW 4*5 AND 6 7. BIG SWEEP: HACK 9. RACE 0NE—2.15 P.M. HOBSES, CLASS 2, DIV. 2. X OBLONGS. Sailing (TtMofc) M.OO "Playmate Stable" Maitin M
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    AMATEUR CAPTAIN TO STAY
    101 6 County Cricket Reuter. LONDON, Fri. The majority cf county cricket committees have demonstrated by recent appointments that they are not willing to depart from the established custom of an amateur captain. Even so many people believe that the cay is fast approaching whan all counties will
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    AMATEUR BOXING
    28 6 A.P. LONDON, Fn. Ten countries have nominated 39 men for the European amateur boxing team which will meet the U.S. team in Chicago on April 18.—A.P.
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    THREE BEST BETS FOR K.L. RACES
    56 6  -  Good Going Today By ALBERT SPENCER. The Man with 2.000 Winners KUALA LOTFT7R. Today. A SLIGHT shower last night has made the going very good for today's races, the opening day of the Selangor Turf Club's GOLD CUP meeting. The three befit bets should
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    SELECTIONS
    66 6 RACE ONE SAILING l air Flower Hylite RACE TWO i OK EN Egyptian Queen Constance RACE THREE BONNIE PRINCE llljjsi Nathan Empire Rose RACE FOl'R MATA HARI Grand Day Inspiration RACE FIVE BRIGHT EYES Croydon Dark Brocade RACE SIX PRINCE EUGENE Happy Traveller Royal Flush RACE SEVEN KINDER GOLD
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    Second Day Runners Do Fast Work At K.L.
    189 6  -  By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,00« Winners XI ALA LUMPUR, Today. UAMBR lOX (Little), Colony (Flannery) and Airgee (J. Donnelly) were the fastest workers (his morning when the runners for the second day of the Selnngor Tnrf Club Gold Cup meeting
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    A CRISP LEFT UPPERCUT—AND BOBBY WINS
    500 7  -  By JOHN C. SPITTEL A CRISP left uppercut, which travelled no more than six inches, sent Filipino Johnny Cinto to the boards for the full coont last night at the Happy World Stadium. Standing over him was Bobby Njoo of Indonesia, who had outboxed
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    WORRELL HITS 149 NOT OUT
    198 7 MADRAS, Friday. TEST player Frank Worrell, who is expected to tour England with the West Indies team this summer, scored 149 not out for the Commonwealth side in the fifth and final "unofficial" Test match against India here today. At tho close cf play on
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    Scorcbord
    113 7 Reuter. COMMONWEALTH IST. INNS. N. Oldtield c Adhikari b Modi t J. Livingston c Joshi b Phadkar 4. HoU I mrijrar b Phadkar g| V. Worrell not out 119 W. Allf.v run out 4H W. Freer st Joshi b Mankad .1 R. Smith b ho.vuhnry 7 fi. Tribe b
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    FARELF XI V. FARAF
    55 7 The fol'owing will play for the FARELF XV against the FARAF at the Jalan Besar Stadium at 5 p.m. today: Copt Smythe; Lieut. Greyscone, L/Cpl. Ruhcry, L/Cpl. Spiller. Capt. Goweer; 2nd. Lieut. Wilscn, Major Wilson; Lieut. Fainie, CSMI Robbins, CSM Jennings, Sgt. McOdam, Major Banniser, Lieut.
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    AUSSIES 303
    39 7 Reuter. AUCKLAND, Fri. The Australian cricket team touring"" New Zealand scored 303 in their fitst inaings against Auckland her today, and at the close of pay the nome side had replied with 22 for no wicket. —Reuter.
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    Morris Completes 1,000 Runs
    121 7 KIMKBULEY. Fri. The Australian cricket tour:*is were in a sound position at the end of too tirst day bl h.-tr three-day match the :oth or the tour against (Jriou&hvid West hero today. Batting ttrst on a .v.uibakcd gra&slofls wicket, tno tourist:; declared their first innings at
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    Scoreboard
    164 7 Reuter. Archer c Helfrich b Wad dington Morris c Henche b McNaiiy |t H»ney M Van d*< Ksthuitrn b Waddinjrton 7 McCool lbw McNainara t'.t Hc«sett e Helfrich b MrNam a ra |t Loxton MeNally b Dunn $H Saggers c Helfrich b He Num.tr a 33 Lindivall Ibw McNamara
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    Rest Score Narrow Win Over Europeans
    347 7 j THE Colony hockey season officially came to a close yesterday with a Europeans versus the Rest match on the Padang. The result was four goals to three for the Rest. IS v»a.- Can wtniiet though J the Rest had a slight edge I
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    ARSENAL v. DERBY PROMISES TO BE A CLASSIC
    335 7  -  By JIM CHAMBERS A.P. LONDON, Fri—It is London versus the North of England in the top ranking First Division games on tomorrow's football dule.* At Highbury there is the clash between Arsenal and Derby County. Southwest London Fulham with a much changed
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    'WORK FOR PEACE'
    195 8 CHURCHILL, ATTLEE AND DAVIE S ASSURE U.N. Reuter U.P. LONDON, Friday. I EADERS of the main British political parties today gave an assurance that they regarded the preservation of peace as taking priority over all domestic and party issues. The United Nations Association m Britain had asked
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    COAL BROWN-OUT
    37 8 U.P. PITTSBURGH, Fri.—Five men were shot in a gun battle in the soft coal fields of West Virginia today and the severe coal shortage forced brown outs and strict rationing in New York state. —U.P.
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    REDS HAVE THE SAME VIEWS?
    117 8 U.P. MOSCOW. Fri.—A manifesto of the Communist Party's Central Committee declared today that the immediate task of the Communist Party is to make war lmpossule. The manifesto taking up one and a half pages of the six-page special editions of Pravda and Izvestia. was issued
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    265 REDS KILLED
    30 8 Reuter. SEOUL, Fri—The National Defence Ministry' today announced 265 Communists were kil'ed and 90 captured in 86 incidents in South Korea between Feb. 1 and 15. Reuter.
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    Seeks Red In Ernie's Place
    93 8 A.P. LONoOm. Fri. One o. Britain's leading scientists today urged itie election of a Communist as member of Parliament in place of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevic. He .is 48-year old Professor i. I>. Bernal, i)-Day scientific adviser to the Allied armed services. He was ousted
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    JESSUP IN INDIA
    14 8 Reuter. CALCUTTA, Fri. or. Philip Jesaup, arrived here today from Bangkok.-Reuter.
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    PROPOSES MacA. AS MAM TO CHECK REDS
    70 8 U.P. NEW YORK, Fri—General William- (Wild Bill) Donovan proposed today that the United States appoint a "Supreme Commander" to lead America's attempt to contain Communism in Southeast Asia in the face of a stepped-up Russian drive to gain complete dominance there. Although Donovan
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    HIROHITO TO PAY
    30 8 Reuter. TOKYO. Fti.—"uniperor Hirohito will bear the exh ises m the Imperial household so that Kazuko Princess TaKa, his second living daugntcr, may have a suitable wedding.—Reuter.
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    340 CHINESE HELD
    25 8 A.P. BANGKOK, Fri. -Thailand's Ministry of the Interior today reported a total of 340 Chinese were arrested in 1949 for deportable offences.—A.P.
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    If Russia Wants War Japan Will Fight
    136 8 A.P. U.P. WASHINGTON, Friday. A JAPANESE Parliament member said today that Japan would line up with the Western democracies in the event of war with Russia if it was unable to remain neutral. But, he said, Japan would prefer to remain neutral, "because
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    NO CUTS'—SAYS MR. TRUMAN
    184 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Fri. -President Truman in a speech tonight rejected pioposais to cut down on United States defence and foreign aid expenditures. In a political speecn as head of the Democratic Party, the President accused his political opponents of wishing to see the United States "turn
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    Gamboa Can't Go Yet...
    107 8 TOKYO, Fri. Sergean». Lorenzo liamnoa stud ioda> that he re-ouusicd in the United States Army tor another tnree years service when Im.aigiaton iwiinisiei Arthur Caiwell refused him to jom \ua wile in Australia. The Philippines-born Aracr.can soldier said m l'oicyo .oday: "There was nothing else I
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    ANTI-SMALL POX
    24 8 Reuter. MEDAN, Fri.—More than 86,000 people have been vaccinated in a new anti-small pox campaign in Medan, accotding to Ancta agency.— Reuter.
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    BLOCKADE EXTENDS
    20 8 U.P. BERLIN, Fri.—The Soviet baby blocKade of Berlin has been extended to canal traffic. British officials charged today.—U.P.
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    LONDON SHARES
    167 8 Reuter. LONDON. Fri.—There was quiet cheerfulness in most sections of the S'.ock Exchange—at the close of the week. Leading industrial issues made further upward progress although the pace war slower tiian of late. Feature of the section was a gain of six points in Cable and Wireless ordinary
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    Week-End Diary GENERAL
    245 8 TODAY BAMAKRISH>A Mission. 9 Norris Roaa. oeteorations 01 115 th anniversary ot Sri Kamanrishna birthday, recitations and hi teres by student* and teacher* 01 ..n.«sion schools. 10 cm.: T.thi 1 00--ja 12 noon; feeding the por,r. 1 p.m.; public meeting b p.m uiusif. '1 p.m. j THIRD
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    CHURCH SERVICES
    356 8 TODAY SEVENTH DAT ADVENTIST CHI'RCH: (6. Penang Road): Sabbath School 8.30 p.m. preaching service at 5 p.m. TOMORROW METHODIST: Wesley Church 10 a.m.; 5 p.m. Straits Ch? nese (K. a m p on g Kapot > 9 a.m., 10 a.m.. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.; Paya Lebar 9 a.m..
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    CINEMA
    220 8 CAPITOL: "Inspector General" with Danny Rave tit 11 4, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. Midnight tonight: "Slattery Hurricane" Sunday matinee: "Mexican Haynde"—9 a.m. CAl'HAY: "Neptune's Daughter" with Esther Willi K-i Skelton and Ricardo Monuioau and Betty Garrett at 11. 145, 4.15, 6.45 and 9.80 p.m. Midnight: "Battleground". PAVILION: splendor'' at
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    SPORT
    32 8 TODAY RUGBY: FAKELF v. FEAr. Jaian Besar. SOCCER Hotspurs v. St. Josenh's S.J.I.: St. Joseph 2nd XI v. Potong Pasir Rangers, Su Antony's Ground. TOMORBOW SOCCER Jolinaus v. HEME, Rly. Ground.
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