Malaya Tribune, 11 March 1950

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    62 1 MALAYA Tribune BY 7T/F PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPIJE Idk TriburwrSpom LARGER SAI£S THAN ANY AFTER NOON PAPER IN MALAYA 1 Phone 3*ll/3 Published simultaneously vi 3 ingapore, Kuaia Lump- Ipoh nnd Penang. TWELVE PAGE'S SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1950 TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE B. Maurice Glover, Malaya
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    BOMBED PAPER GETS ANOTHER BOMB WARNING
    365 1 But Mr. Tan Says: "It's Business As Usual" ARMED police were placed on the Robinson Road A office of Chung Shing Jit Pao, Singapore's only Kuomintang newspaper, last night after Managing Director Tan Kok Chor had received a letter threatening him with death and
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    The King Honours R.A.F. In Malaya
    211 1 A.P. LONDON, Friday. THE Air Ministry announced today that the King has approved six awards of the Order of the British Empire to Royal Air Force men in Malaya and a bar to the D.S.O. of Squadron Leader Edward Disen Crew who has flown
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    Colonial Sceretary Blythe
    40 1 Mt W L. Bly the. P denl o\ the >!u--■M ipal < oinmissioners, Singapore, has been tppeinted Colonial Sej Singapore, it was oiii! iall> announced here. Mr. Blvthe was Secretary f«»T I htr.ese Affairs, m I'nion. in 1946.
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    TIN: MARKET EASY
    87 1 U.P. LONDON. Fri.—The Ministry of Supply apparently decided to lower its /selling price for spot tin for the price fell more than £1 to £598% today. Three months fell to £591% reducing the spread between spot and forward to £7—the smallest margin since the tin market opened.
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    ART SHOW
    34 1 Sir Patrick McKerron. the Officer Administrating Government, will open the Singapore Art Society's first exhibition of works by local artists a*, thr British Council Hall Stamford Road, this evening at 5 p.m.
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    WAS RED—HAIRED WITCH INSANE?
    93 1 A.P. Augsburg. Germany. Fri.— Gorman officials said today that I'se Rosa, infamous aedhaired witch of Buchenwald concentration camp, has -been placed in an asylum for a pre-trial mental examination. Frau Rosa, widow of a foimer Commander of Buchenwald. is to be tried by a German court
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    JOHORE POLICE RECOVER HAND GRENADE
    72 1 JOHo.tt o/iiirvu. Today. A combined party of Military Police and the local CJ.D.-swooped on a house at the back of the Majiedee Camp. Tebrau. yesterday and recovered a primed British hand grenade. The occupants. Hylams. were arrested. In Muar. a police squad captured a Javanese
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    DEATH IN COURT
    36 1 A.P. JOHANNESBURG. Fri.— An adultery damage suit ended dramatically in Johannesburg today when the plaintiff. Albert Glucksman. shot the defendant. Joe Greeberg, in the foyer of the Supreme court and then committed suicide.—A.P.
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    REDS EVACUATE CANTON CITY
    228 1 Government Moves To Kukong U.P. and A.P. HONGKONG, Friday. THE Chinese Communist provincial government is evacuating Canton because of Nationalist air raids, reports reaching Hongkong said todny. The first trainload of government property left the much bombed Kwangtung provincial capital today for Kukong, 120 miles to
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    HO'S CALL UP
    25 1 A.P SAIGON, Fri. Radio Vietminh announced today that Communist Ho Chi Mingh's "Democratic Republican Government" has signed a decree ordering general mobilisation.—A.P.
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    PAY FAIR PRICES CEYLON URGES US.
    82 1 A.P. COLOMBO, Friday. fEYLON will submit a fresh plan for economic development in South and South East Asia when the Commonwealth ministers meet in Canberra next month. Trr new plan emphasises the need for foreign investm?nt in this area. But since foreign investment really
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    FAROUK SLIMS
    16 1 A.P. COPENHAGEN, Friday. King Farouk of Egypt is undergoing a reducing treatment here. —A.P.
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    Today's Best Bets
    28 1 Tbe going will be hard a( Penan g today where the best bets today are GRLCIAN PRINCE. SHEFFIELD PLATE and BATTI 11. See page 11.
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    750 HINDUS KILLED IN BENGAL RIOTS
    89 1 STOP PRESS Reuter. NLW DELHI. Fri. About 750 Hindu men and women were killed and an unknown number injured in the Barital district of East Bengal as a result of mass attacks by Moslems between Feb. 13 and 16, according to a detailed re;x>rt
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    CREDITOR'S PATIENCE WASTED
    146 2 CREDITOR 'S PATIENCE WASTED BECAUSE a t.ev.itor did not believe that a debtor wculd keep his promise in regard to an offer of $40 monthly towards the liquidation oi ti uidgment debt, the debtor "s offer was turned down. This was revealed in the High Court yesterday when a judgment
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    50,000 SMALLHOLDERS IN MALAYA
    84 2 MALACCA, Fri—Mr. F.U. Ascoli. managing director Oi Dunlops Plantations Ltd., in a talk to Malacca Rotarians ase night said that seventy p«f cent of the labour emp.oyed in Malaya is woiking on lubber estates. There an 50.000 smallholdeis in the country, he added. With dependants, there
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    Bankrupt Released
    60 2 A Chinese bankrupt, Lee To Woh, who had been detained in civil prison on the orders of the Chief Justice until he made a statement of his affairs to the Official Assignee, obtained his release yesterday. On behalf of the Official Assignee. Mr. D. H;. Chapman told Mr.
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    BOY ROBBED
    33 2 Two men. one ol whom was armed with a knife, robbed a Hylam house-boy walking along Meyer Road at 11.30 p.m., on Thursday of his wrist watcn and $1.60 in cash.
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    KASSIM WAS THE BEST OF THEM—
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    2,600 PEOPLE VISIT USIS LIBRARY
    77 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.~ MORE than 2.630 people have visited the USIS Library at 75 Ampang Road since the place was opened on February 15 This averages more than 100 Deonle a da v. The number c; ooks nas also increasea. testa sta id.s at h2OO
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    They Show Her How It Is Done
    38 2 Con iess Mount ha Hen watches a demonstration of hrst aid by members of the Red Cross and Order of St. John Ambltlanee orga* II es a r Stadium on Thursday.
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    DOROTHY ILL, PLAY IS OFF
    173 2 THE Singapore Repertory Theatre had a stroke of bad luck yesterday when Dorothy Morrell s doctor ordered her to leave the cast of the company's next show. "They Walk Alone" because she is to have an immediate operation. The show was duo to open next
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    Accidents Kill Three
    45 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Thi cc adults and two children w/re killeo. in accidents in Perak last month. Two fatal accidents cccured in Tapah and one in Ipoh. Krian and Sungei Siput respectively. There* weir 100 non-fatal accidents involving 45 people including*!© children.
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    TEA PARTY FOR AWARD WINNER
    44 2 The Air Ministry Local Stall Union is uivine a oarty to-day to Mr. C. P. Richards, in honour ol his redem award of a British Empire Medal. The party will be held m the Cathay Restaurant at 5 p.m.
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    WOMAN GETS' 14 DAYS GRACE
    133 2 A COMMITTAL order made against a Chinese A woman, Ng Chwee, by the Chief JotfSce, Murray-Aynsley, on March 3, on the application of the Official Assignee, tor disobeying an order cf th court, was yesterday susj>ended again from operrj Lion for another fortnight. On the
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    INSPECTOR GETS ONE YEAR GAOL
    291 2 •THIEF Inspector Mohamed bin Sidin of the Centra. L Police Station was yesterday sentenced to one year's rigorous imprisonment and a fine of SSUUMUm default another three months' gaol) in the IW District Court yesterday. Mohamed who was cleared of twoof. thre. charges told the
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    ADMISSIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY
    88 2 APPLICATIONS for admission to any of the FaculI ties of the University of Malaya must be made to the Registrar, University of Ma- laya. A Government press release said this last night. Appp..cations must be on the forms prescribed and must leach the office of the
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    BACK TO INDIA
    50 2 MR. S. I). Kalelkar. Information Oflicer 1 attached to the oilice of the Representative of the Government of India in Malay a. who has been transferred to New Delhi where he will be a research omcer in the External Affairs Ministry. He leaves Singapore on March S3.
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    TOP WOMAN OFFICIAL LEAVES FOR U.S.
    232 2 MRS. Isabel A. Usurer, oik Of the highest rankii^ irnmtn in the U.S. Stat. r> paitment. left Slugaporc teiday for Saigon on the tirst lap ot a journey hack t<> Washington after visiting I'nited States Information Service offices in Singapore and Kuala Lumpui. Mis.
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    'Terror' Slows Expresses
    163 3 MR. J. O. Sander.-*, CMC General Manager, Mala yan Railway, said m a broadcast over Radio Malaya last night that the terror had «lowed down the country's rati expresses. He said "the n'tgrht mad trains now take twelve hours for the journey? which tooa only nine hours
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    GIANT STADIUM FOR THE COLONY?
    270 3 A BILL for the creation of a corporation known as the "Singapore Sports Stadium" was published in the Government Gazette last night. It will be introduced into the Legislative Council on March 21. A sports stadium estimated to cost $2,000,000 and hold 60.000 people is
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    PLEADS GUILTY, PAYS $600 FINE
    68 3 In the Singapore First District Court. Neo Han Siew. Taikong of a motor vessel, yesterday, pleaded guilty to the four charges of failing to have the name of his vessel marked on each bow. report the arrival of the vessel at the Post Office, produce
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    Women As Jurors Move In The Council
    128 3 niNGAFORE women arc to C IHU *J bi'-ecr chance S be IVC t a in tneColony's t0 la ltS A b 11 amending clV ic dut es p r o CC durc Code on the Singapore J«rv V C T e hl amendment
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    55 BOYS WENT HOME FOR THE NEW YEAR
    73 3 DURING February. two boys absconded from the Bukit Timah Home. Three were transferred to Outram Road Prison for repeatedly absconding. Three boys failed to return from leave given to them at Chinese New Year. This is announced in a Social Welfare Report
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    VESAK MAY HELP THE UNIVERSITY
    173 3 *rw-S\K xr Singar-rc on Ma> 1 1 k» n ualv«ritty tial gjft Fun... of Malaya Com for the Day o^v-;-,,,,, that only a qua" ~r l, sun. will be sp« rehrating the da>. 1 ln main-lev wtl go J Mai- 1 D th: £md ami
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    Police Dogs To Hunt Reds
    144 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A BATCH of 14 police dogs, lepresentini; the fust big shipment to be sent to Malaya from the United Kingdom, has arrived in Kuala Lumpui. Nine of them, the majority Alsatians and a few of mixed pedigree, were flown in by a
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    BANK DAYS MAY BE REST DAYS FOR ALL
    391 3 THE Select Committee I ppointed by the I egislative Council to study the Holiday Bill may consider a Singapore move to get Bank Holidays declared public holidays, so the Tribune understands. Should this move be successful then Singapore will get four extra
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    SIX SUICIDES
    30 3 Four m n and two worn n oo#»mifctca su'c.dc in Sin a io: •in Fe*ra*r* Tir°e dl~d by har.Tin?. i* (J drank corrosive substances and one by drowning.
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    RED HANDED
    25 3 KOTA BAHRU. Fri. A traffic polrce constable was recently caught in the act of accepting bribes. Marked notes were found on his possession.
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    COUNTESS VISITS HOME AT SERENDAH
    97 3 KOALA LUMPUR. Fri. Counters Moun batten of Bui ma, head of the St. John Ambulance Association, arrived at Kuala Lumpui this morning by air from Sin pore on a tour of the Federation. Countess Mounbatten started her tour with a visit to the Soiendah Boys'
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    DR. SUBBAROYAN DUE HERE TODAY
    47 3 Dr. P. Subbaioyan. Indian Ambassador to the United States of Indonesia, is expected to arrive here today by X.L.M. Constellation. Dr. Subbaioyan will stop in Singapore for three days, duling which he wi'l be the guest of Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. the CommissionerGcneial.
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    FLOWER SPRAY
    25 3 Little Miss Tan Hock Kirn presented a spray of flowers to Mrs. Gordon Smith at the Overseas League's tea party at Raffles Hotel
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    QUESTIONED
    33 3 An cmp'oyee of the left-wing Chinese language newsp;r Nan Chiau Jit Pao was yesterday asked to visH the Special Branch of the Singapore Police to assist in enquiries which are being conducted.
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    DENNIS IN PAIN, TRIED TO LAUGH
    235 3 THE man with the mysterious pain. 30-year-om D-nnts Hindoo, wbo WSJ flown on a stretcher from Kuching last Monday, is still in agony in the General Hospital He fainted in a Sibu bank three weeks ago, and has been in constant pain ever since.
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    RECEIVING ORDER FOR $369
    67 3 A receiving and adjudication order was made against B. Jacob by the Chief Justice, Mr. MurrayAynsley. in the High Court yesterday on the petition of a judgment creditor. The judgment dtbt amounts to $389. For the creditor. Mr. P. S. Nathan, said that a bankruptcy notice
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    THEY FIGHT FIRES AND
    220 4 JOHORE Bahru's fireflghtcrs last year saved hp.Y. a mil'ion dollars uoi'h of properly i» the town area. They attend <1 17« calls. The total VSuSe of property prelected h\ I hem during the same period totals nearly four million dollars. Fire loss, excluding those on estates
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    1727 5  - OSWALD HENRY v: F«>r: (lord; f, B •B \TTLEGROUNP" s < ut out(he kaf'*, tl :iy quite frankpicture that membered ing. its taciitation and power. Added masterly diini A. Well- w i wizardry of Director Paul being odious J to say that s the best-, 1 ires as Dend -Ruts
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    'RED' LANDLORDS ARE BECOMING GREEDY
    373 5 Slant Rent Racket A.P. HONGKONG, Friday. landlord in Communist China is an unhappy man—that is unless he happens to be f he lord of land in Hongkong territories. In that cases he if very happy, but according to spokesmen of the Hongkong government and of
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    A-BOMBS DON'T SCARE BLOCKADE BUSTER LIE
    124 5 A.P. BANGKOK. Fri. John Lie, whose blockade-run ning exploits attracted wend attention during the two Dutcn police actions in Indonesia, says the riew republic needs arms to jiotect herself ii the mainland countries of Southeast Asia tall to communism. The former com man lei
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    PRIEST FAKED MIRACLE
    69 5 U.P. PRAGUE. Fri.— Minister of Justice Aiexej Cepicka said yesterday that a Catholic priest confesed that he had laked the miracle of the Cross that Leaned to the West. The Minister said that Father Josef Toufar. priest of the town of Cihost, will go on trial shortly.
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    TAXATION
    64 5 Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG. Fri. The Legislative Council yesterday passed the first reading of the 1950-51 budget call ing for a sum of $199,051,--037. This is the largest budget ever asked by the Hongkong Government. The estimated expenditure is expected to be $7,071,557 more than the revenue. The Government hopes to
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    Jap Egg Yarn
    74 5 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO. Fri.—Following a week of strange egg-Laying stories, Japanese newspaper today told of an alleged "rooster" in Miyagi Prefecture, northern Snpnn, laying an egg. The newspaper said that when news of the laying spread, people roshed In the rm>ster's owner to ask for the fixHouc\er. im,'
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    Nazi Colonel Tells Of Soviet Cruelty
    196 5 U.P. BERLIN. Friday, A FORMER German Staff colonel recently returned from a Russian prison cam]) after a five-year term said that prisoncs hva under unl li. vably harsh cendit ions with a threat of executi m hanging over their heads constantly. lb .said h<
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    ROASTED ALIVE
    22 5 U.P. Albuquerque, New Mexico Fri.—A ten-minute lire burned 11 men io death .nd ciiticelly injured two others last night. U.P.
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    SUMMER LIGHTNING
    520 6 It was a summer's evening, Old Rama's work was done, And V before his cottage door Was squatting in the sun. ACCORDING to Mr. J. S. Ferguson, energetic president of the Perak Planters' Association, that is the last thing in the world he should be allowed to do,
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    PIMPLES ON THE FACE OF INDIA
    1199 6  -  by A CORRESPONDENT Reuter. BOMBAY PUR city specks of France on India's southern coastline will decide this summer whether they wil» merge with the Indian Republic or remain French. Preparations are now in train for a referendum in the French settlements of Pondicherry. Karikal.
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    FOUR COLOURS TELL THEIR OWN STORY
    624 6  -  by EIGIL ANDERSON WASHINGTON. TO the men who make the maps for the U.S. High Command the world situation is so simple that they illustrate it with only four colours. In the Pentagon Building, the huge complex of offices housing the administration of the
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    BRITISH FRENCH FLEETS IN MANOEUVRES
    102 6 A.P. PARIS. Th» British and French fleets, key weapon of the North Atlantic defence machinery, go to sea this week to test their ability to work together. Kvnensive manoeuvres have been planned for squadrons of the two fleets in the Western Mediterranean. The main objects,
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    THEY ARE FOOLED BY THEIR OWN PROPAGANDA
    892 6  -  x W.N. Ewer Noted political commentator SENTENCES on Mr. Saunders and Mr. Vogeler in the Budapest "spy trial." the Hungarian notes to London and Washington which followed the trial, and the speech a few days later of President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia, all have
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    SOVIET AGENTS AMONG REFUGEES
    555 6 BERLIN ALL "refugees" arriving in West Berlin from the Soviet zone are being carefully screened following the discovery among them of Soviet agents, tramps and criminals. Welfare officials here state that while they do not want to turn back genuine political victims who might be subject
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    THE JEALOUS HUSBAND
    54 6 A.P. SYDNEY. Fri. Justice Edwards said in Divorce o |jU that being jealous of a woman was the greatest comp'iinent a man could pay her. But he granted a divorce r Daphe Banfield. 28. because she complained her husbar<- > Jealousy conduct was agectiru her health. That's
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    Village Belles
    26 7 tates of Indo-China—Vietnam. Laos and Cambodia—have many rac»s of li re b a group of one of the races of Laos.—A.P. Photo —A.P. Pnoto
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    BOBYSOXER'S EMOTIONAL GRO WTH PROBE
    248 7 A.P. NEW YORK. Friday. WHAT is it like to be a bobysoxer, a teenager, or 10-year-old boy? A new adolescent clinic here is trying to find out. It is trying to learn what is normal or xverap"* in the physical and emotional growth, needs and
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    DENFELD ACCUSES MATHEWS
    99 7 U.P. NEW YORK. Fri.—Admiral E. Denfeld said today removal norn nit- top command because of i his views on armed services unification means that rational defence is >ntr tiled by political appoint* ••> instead of Congress." The former Chief of Naval Operations said he was "rin d"
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    WERE THEY SMALLTIMERS OR BAD HATS?
    73 7 Reuter. AAP MELBOURNE. Fri.—Whether England'! convicts were dumped into Australia for potty offences or whether they wer* dangerous desperadoes la to be the subiect ol special research. Dean oi Trinity College. Melbournt University, (Mr. fl G L SI aw I long internd'a criminal transport
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    Diesels Outmode Puff Puffs
    56 7 Diesels Ou t mode Puff Puffs A.P. PITTSBURGE. Fri.—Steam railway locomotives will be as outmoded as coaches within a few years." says Charles E. Wilson. President of General Eelectric Corporation. Wilson said the new type diesel-electric. locomotives are more efficient and eliminate smoke. General Electric is one of the leading
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    Russians Woo Eskitmoes
    58 7 A.P. MOSCOW, Fri.—An Eski-mo-Russian dictionary has been compiled here. Considerable research and attention is being devoted to the Eskimo language in the USSR. A senior scientific member ot the institute staff, P. Y. Skorik. has translated into Russian more than 160 Chukotsk fairy tales, legends and songs
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    PERUGIA LIVES IN THE PAST AND LOVES IT
    551 7 Caesar Borgia Roamed Its Narrow Winding Streets After Dark A.P. PERUGIA, Friday. TIRED of living in the present? Then take a trip to Perugia which lives in 1 the past and loves it. This quaint city of 90,000 high amid the land-locked
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    Forces Kill $2,000 Bandit
    328 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A POLICE jungle squad operating in the Alor Gajah area recently shot dead a leader of the Machap gang who had a reward of $2,000 on his head. A pisto' and 41 rounds of ammunition were recovered from him. Tai Pin, another leader
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    Labour's Lead Now Down To 6
    70 7 MANCHESTER, Fri.— I A Conservative, Miss Florence Horsbrueh won the delayed parliamentary election here yesterday, slicing the Lab o v r Government's majority from seven to six. Miss Horsbrugh's majority was 8,578 votes. The final state of the parties in the House of Commons
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    Police Search For Balloon Bomb Inventor
    130 7 Reuter. TOKYO. Fri —The Japanese police today widened their search through the dense boar-infested forests of Izu peninsula for Dr. Toshio Otsuki and his secretary, who they believed, committed double suicide around March 4. Otsuki. aged 40 years, the Japanese wartime scientist who invented
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    TORTOISES ARE BRITONS' MOST POPULAR PETS
    97 7 Reuter. LONDON. Fri.—Climbing M the top as Britain's most popular children's pet is the 10l tOISC. A consignment of 4,000 tortoises just arrived here was reported "sold out by the Nation's pet shops within a few days. Mr. John Ford, who claims to be
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    JAPS' BLOOD BANK
    19 7 Reuter. XOKtfO, Fri.—Tnj American Red Cross is helping the Japanese to set up nationwide blood banks.—Reii-
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    ARMS, ARMS. ARMS
    22 7 A.P. ROME, Fri—ltalian police have uncovered" and confiscated enough arms in the last three years to equip a division.—A.P.
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    Flower Show Opens End Of This Month
    243 7 SINGAPORE flower lovers will soon be given a big 0 treat when the Singapore Gardening Society hold their second post war 'Flower Shew* m the Happy World Stadium on Mar. 31, April 1 and 2. The Society, which put up a fine show
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    In Hollywood They Call A Bad Picture A Dog
    246 7 A.P. HOLLYWOOD. Friday. A TURKEY. A stinker. A A dtig. These are Hollywood \s terms for bad picture. Perhaps'you hay noticed that not all movies are hits. That is one of Uvj dang its of mass production of entertainment. Rounded up
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    3½ MILLION WAR MEDALS UNCLAIMED
    79 8 Reuter. LONDON. three and a half million war medals worth 700.000 sterling still await their owners. They are being kept under guard in the War Department's Keeord Offices throughout ihe country. What will happen to them? They aril] remain where the\ are for the time,
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    PLAN TO LINK WEST INDIES
    53 8 Reuter. LONDON. Fri,-A British Colonial Office '-eport tonight, foresaw eventual creation of a new British dominion in th' 1 West Indies. The report, made by the standing closer association Committee of the British Caribbean. recommended the linking of all West Indian Colonies in a "British
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    Koo Flays UN Ruling On China
    100 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, In Dr. Wellington Kco. Chin ac Amhmsador, said last night that the proposal by Tryyve Lie. Secretary •General of the United Nations, relating to the claim of the Chinese Communists tor representation is a surprising and "questionab'e" course of action. Koo, who
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    100 Arizona Children Found Starving
    169 8 U.P. PHOENIX. Arizona. Friday. ONE hundred children were slowly starving in a larm labour camp rj&a* riere, authorities discovered today. Families In the camp unable to get work because of the freete-spofled crops were living on a diet of flour biscuits and lard gravy. Most
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    NOT A £ MORE
    28 8 NOT A MORE LONDON, Fri.—The British gover nment announced today the retention of its £50 travel allowance for tourists to Europe during the 12--month period starting May 1.
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    WORM, WORM, WHITHER GOEST THOU ?
    90 8 WORM, WORM, WHITHER GOEST THOU A.P. WASHINGTON. Fri,—For tracing worms underground Canadian scientists are using radioactive cobalt, it was told in Science, the official journal cf American scientist*. There has never been any way previously to tell where a worm went below the surface, except by detective work after he
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    P.I. VISIT OFF
    34 8 U.P. JAKARTA. Fri.- -President Sukarno of the new United States of Indonesia will be unable to visit the Philippines at the invitation of President Elipidio Qulrino. according to well-informed sources today.—U.P
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    ISRAEL TO CLAMP DOWN ON GIFT CAR' RACKET
    160 8 A.P. TEL AVIV, Fri. The Israeli government Is cracking down on the importation of "gift cars" from the United States. Government officials claim such imports have deve'oped into a "racket," and endangered < stability of Israel ouilency aboard. In future, no import
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    Wounded Soldiers Bound For Formosa
    45 8 Wcunded NaJio-i-J alist soldier-, wn*< retreated tnte Moa*;--kong from ihe bat tic-fields oi Re I China are bein* repatriated to Formosa. These so Pliers and their families are shown boarding a ship on trie Hongkong Bund. A.P. Pheto. A.P. Phcto.
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    'A STRONG JAPAN IS BEST WEAPON AGAINST COMMUNISM'
    300 8 KAUFFMAN CIVES THREE REASONS FOR PRESENT CRISIS IN FAR EAST A.P. NEW YORK, Friday. JAMES Lee Kauffmau, longtime legal socialist in Japanese affairs, declared today that a strong Japan was the United States' best weapon against 'inirmiiisfir's spread in Asia. KaufTman addressed
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    U.S. Urged To Treal Asians Better
    88 8 U.P. NEW YORK. Fri. JAMES Lee Kaufl'nian urged the United State:, to consider the physic il well being of the Astatic peoples. He said: "Alter all 95 per C< nt of Orientals ask only lor a little more iood to eat. a little better
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    MOTHER WANTS TWINS TO LIVE
    96 8 U.P. WYNWARD. Australia. Fri. The mother or Siamese twins born six days ago said today that she would treasure them always even if they had to go through life with their heads joined but pointing in opposite directions. Their father Erskine Smith, a timber cutter,
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    REDS GET READY FOR ATOM WAR?
    171 8 U.P. NEW YORK, Friday. RUSSIA may be building battleships for use as mobile guided missile platfoms', retired Admiral William H. P. Blur»dy said tonight. Ho said "a battleship may well enve've to mobile guided missile platform. .certainly a battleship is as dead as dodo
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    NO DEATH PENALTY
    30 8 Reuter. LONDON. Fri. Prime Minister Clement Attlee tonight refused to introduce the death penalty as a punish ment for certain infringements of the British Official Secrets Acts.—Reuter.
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    JUST A RUMOUR
    27 8 A.P. LONDON. Fri. Buckingham Palace saiti today any report that Princes.' Elizabeth is expecting another child is "simply a guess, speculation or rumour." —A.P.
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    SAFE ARRIVAL
    24 8 A.P. RANGOON. Fri. Colonel McCoimick. Chicago Tribune publisher, arrived in Bangkok in his private plane from Colombo for a two-day stay.—A.P. "'isH!
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    Indies Stocks Dampen Market
    95 9 WEEK IN RUBBER MRir rubber market has 1 been much Quieter this t he accumulating in Indonesia still Shadowing the situand dampening what therwise be a bul- says the marriew mr the week isbj Lewis and Peat J t a. last night. ,i, r, is some
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    The Market Yesterday
    116 9 The rubber commodity marimproved yesterday with iod buying on a feeling that Indonesian rubber j are not likely to be ,<! on the market for mm time yet. (losing prices in cents per r.ii.ii.'l W< l»' I I !uyi rs Sellers i Ah. AjH Ml 4 53^
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    WEEK'S PRICES
    85 9 lowest prices during the week ending Match 10. 19fi| are Highest Lowest C.B.N Spot Loose 53. 3 s 53. 53.% RM A 1 R.S.S. F. 0.8. Apul 1950 53.3 16 52.% 53. U 2P. S S F. 0.8. d:>— 52.7/16 51.»* 52 RSS. F. 0.8. -d>— SLH H.%
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    BANK CHIEF ON EASTERN TRADE
    260 9 HONGKONG, Friday. DEVALUATION of the pound sterling has achieved no permanent cure for the United Kingdom's financial problems and failed to restore confidence overseas, said Sir Arthur Morse, Chairman and chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at the annual meeting this morning. Sir
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    DUMPING OF COTTON
    52 9 Reuter. HONGKONG, Fri. The colony's cotton industry is oadly hit by high cost of ,aw materials and dumping nf Indian and Japanese cotton yarns, according to trade sources here. There are now 13 cotton mills here owning 130,000 spindles with a capacity of 100.000 bales of cotton
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    JAPAN BANS £ AREA IMPORTS
    294 9 JAPAN BANS AREA IMPORTS Reuter. rn,,p T m TOKIO, Friday, jriii, Japanese Government from Mar. 8 has temporarily banned almost all further allocations of sterling foreign exchange for imports from the sterling area. Reason: the failure by the United Kingdom colonies to buy under the sterling area trade agreement according
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    Synthetic Rubber Loses More Ground
    282 9 USIS. WASHINGTON, Friday. fIURTHER revisions of U.S. rubber controls paving the way for greater consumption of natural rubber by U.S. manufacturers were announced yesterday by the U.S. Commerce Department. The action came as the Commerce Department removed controls requiring the use of synthetic rubber in
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    Along The Godowns
    45 9 Buloh (44); Emp. Tescombe (Sheers); Hoperidge (40/1); Benvenue (38 9); S. Seafarer (83/4); Muncanter Castle (31/2); Chinese Prince (17/--8); Sedenak (19/20); Charles McLeod (21/2); Lawak (23/--4); Bendoran (25 6); Heernskerk (15/16); Rondo (11); Fala (6/7); Kamuning (4/5); Oreste (4 5); Perleus (12).
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    Hongkong Electric Co. Profits
    66 9 A.P. HONGKONG. Fri. The Hongkong Electric Co., reported a profit of (HK) $6,792,--000 for last year after deduction for depreciation and profit tax. An interim dividend of 80 (HK) cents per share has been declared and the directors propose a final dividend Of (HK) $1.70 on
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    CURRENCY RATES
    151 9 The following are ll* c.i.reney rates now In force: Fre« Market Currencies. London U' Vl*,* 2{7 /M W fe 2 2 V 1 16 2/4 21^ India. Burma |M and Ceylon 155 8/4 4 1 g Pakistan 1 8 },2' A V> Ul6 Hongkong 1 Euyint; rales for
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    JAPANESE PRICES RISE
    65 9 Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG, Fn—Japanese goods in HongUong hav«' risen by 10 to 15 per rent during the past fortnight, according to Chinese trade circe*. Japanese cotton piece goods have ru-cn by 20 to 30 per cent. The general rise in the prices of Japanese goods is reported to
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    146 9 The coffee market was fairly quiet except for small scale business. Prices ranged from $134 to $138 for small lots of various grades. Copra buyers opened the market yesterday with bids at $38 per picul f.o.b. Mar.Apr. and sellers holding off for $381. Later business was done
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    More Speculation In Indies Goods
    170 9 Reuter. NEW YORK Friday. YORK importers report widespread speculation in Indonesia in basic commodities, with prices being paid up much above world market levels. This trading is based on the hope that world market prices will remain relatively steady, and a devaluation of the guilder
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    BAUXITE FIND
    54 9 NEW DELHI, Fri.—Large deposits of bauxite have been discovered in Belgaurn and Kolhapur districts of Bomba>. Their total reserves are placed in the neighbourhood of 30,000.000 tons, it is estimated that a factory with a capacity to produce 5,000 tons of aluminium can be fed from these deposits
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    Tin Prices
    52 9 SINGAPORE. Mar. 10:| Tin price was cents per picul ex-smelter. Up $0-37*. LONDON MAR. 9: Spot £599*. Up £L Three months £591. Up £2. Settlement price £599 Unchanged. Turnover 45 tons. Second session: Spot £599 L Down Three months £5912. Up £2. Settlement price £599 V* Unchanged. Turnover
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    US$20 MILLION HELP FOR ISRAEL
    62 9 A.P NEW YORK, Fri.—A corporation has been formed ia the United States to finan<;e U5520,000,000 worth of ho' Sing construction in Israel. The corporation has been organised among Labour unions and New York City business leaders. It plans to sell US$K>,O"O,--000 worth of bonds to
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    TINS STEADY, QUIET
    42 9 SINGAPORE Fri. London again showed small improvement in some tin share issues and more dividends were again announced. Locally the market remained quiet but fairly steady. Industrials continued to be in fair demand. Rubber shares also showed some inquiry-
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    858 9 Singapoie. March 10. Buyers Sellers INIUISTKIALB Atlas Ice 11.90 12 25 xb., xd AJex. Bricks Pref. 2.40 2.80 Ord. 2.15 2.25 8.8. Petrol 33 34/9 B.M. Trustees 7.60 8.50 Con. Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/8 Ord. 15/3 10/6 E. Utd. Assur. 38.75 39.75 •flat. A Trust Fed
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    GOING WILL BE HARD IN PENANG
    120 10  -  BEST BETS FOR TODAY By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winners. PENANG. Today-. THERE has been no rain here and consequently the going for today's races which conclude the Penang Turf Club Spring Meeting will be hard. The best bets for today are:
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    Peng Soon Wins His Ties In Scotland
    359 10 Reuter. ABERDEEN, Fri. WONG PENG SOON, winner of the All-England badminton championship last week, was in action in the Northern Scottish championships hero today. He won his second round match against T. H. Boyle of Ireland by 15-5. 15-2. never being extended. There
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    Duckworth Back Behind The Stumps
    241 10 Reuter. BOMBAY. Fri. George Pope, former England and Derbyshire bowler, and Hay Smith. Essex county allrounder, were top scorers lor the Commonwealth each with 85. in- pair com.ng together after wins,on Place had b. en dif n iss»d tt 11, rtgured in a fine w;cket
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    DRAMATIC REPLACES BURPHAM
    152 10 LONDON. Fri.—Dramatic replaced Burpham as favourite for the Lincolnshire handicap at the Victoria Club callover tonight, while Freebooter remained favourite for the Grand National. Dramatic s price was cut from 100-9 to a-L a drop ot over three points. Burpham also shrunk half a point to 9-1.
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    COMMENDABLE EFFORT BY OXFORD CREW
    101 10 Reuter. LONDON. Fri—The Oxford University boat race crew did their first full course trial from Putney to Mortlake today m 20 minutes 50 seconds, a commendable effort on a iairly slack tide and against a strong head wind. Though the time was not particularly good,
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    SETIA DEFEAT PENGHIBORAN
    117 10 In a return friendly match Setia B.P. beat the Penghiboran B.P. by five games to two. Detailed results aft 'Setia players first*: *»IN«.|..- a A 11.., .1 -i i, IT Ya'. iya 6 15. I, l», i-j 1-• A. -tilj I i Muiii.i'» 1 I*. 4 15—*J
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    SCC LUCKY TO LOSE BY ODD GOAL
    443 10 JHE Singapore Cricket Club were fortunatt to have lost by only two goals to one at Jalan Pesar Stadium yesterday when they met the Pulau Brani S C in a Singapore Amateur F. A. Senior League fixture Credit must go to the Club
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    Selections
    53 10 RACE 1 MADANG Eastern Girl Baronness RAC E 2 SHEFFIELD PLATE Fountain Lady Alpha RACE 3 GRACIOUS SPEAR Harlem Princess Royal Eagle RACE 4 BATTI II Catherine Rainbow RACE 5 JAUNTY Mayloon Dcmaratus RACE 6 SPEARMIRTII Fair Conrt Bon Ami RACE 7 GRECIAN PRINCE Entertainment Kakania Race 8 RAMILLIES
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    Only One Knockout In FARELF Boxing
    401 10 JHREE of last year's FARELF boxing champions, flyweight L/Cpl. Rai, bantamweight L Cpl. Markwick and middleweight SS. (I) Webb successfully defended their titles in the Army FARELF boxing finals at the Happy World covered stadium last night. Malaya District won the m tor-district cup
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    YMCA Tennis Has Record In Entries
    111 10 The largest number ot entries ever 105 have been received for the V.M.C.A. open tennis championships which start next W( dnesday. All the best players in Singapore are taking part. In the men's singles players like Ong Chew Bee. Malayan men's doubles and mixed
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    S & S WIN
    40 10 S S WIN Sure and St«dfa."( VMh I. i ihe Dunlop Rubber C O m ~v two t'oals to nil in '..«ndlv >rr match i>la\ ed on tne A lound. Ba!e>tier Ro«i. Both the L-onls were scored b\ Andrew Yeo.
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    SBA MEETING
    26 10 The (Uieemb ann.ni k> v<\ meetinu of the Sin-raporc Bad iiunton Afsociatirui will l»c held at the Onrai Uiuoi. Hill ioGav ;it 2.::« p.m.
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    RACE CARD
    745 10 The following are the handicaps for toda concluding day of the Penang Turf Club Sarin meeting. RACE l IM P.M. HORSES. CLAMN >. IMV. l 7 I l m,(i\i,v Eastern o«bl Po haul D.03 Mr. M. y. Posh™ Eastern (itrls 8.1 l Mr. Check Ens Baroness ißa ::<
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    Good Recovery By W.P. Team
    187 10 CAPETOWN, Friday. Australia's ricketer? were kept in the field all day today when they opened a match against Western Province who Wi for the loss of nine wickets hefore stumps were drawn. The opening pair were dismissed for 17 but then Cheetham and Wynne, two
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    SOCCER IN ISRAEL
    24 10 A.P. TEL AVIV. Fri.—A Turkish Fenerbache soccer team has arrived here to play a series of matches against Israel Hapoel Howards.—A.P.
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    ONE BRITISH WOMAN N TABLE TENNIS
    66 10 A.P. London. Friday. I** Americans moved in to tin of the womcn> division of the ail-BnfWj table tennis to.irntwe» today. Mildred Shahwn Mouness and Man- utn each won two mat. The only remaining tlncai to an American victoiy m V* finals is 16-vcai-ol<i Rowe
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    KHALSA v. S,C.C.
    49 10 The following for the yiti<*por. hj 1 ciaWon W ain«t tomorrow wi ihe r-K* Pavers ;ir« kiidh meet at lb. <»um\ a: Ualu.. ii Siairh <•<■;■■■ Singh, Wa'.ir Sinirh. M. B. ?«v; >ia Patel. Btfcnuui Singh. Balwan Sin;:'' StnJ'. R« v yd 7k. «kMiain L'n«| r Singh.
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    STATE CONTROL OF BOXING ADVOCATED IN AUSTRALIA
    493 11 OPPOSITION TO RECOMMENDATION 1 U.P. SYDNEY. Friday. SPECIAL boxing '.oinmittee has reeoiiimencl State Government control of fighters, managers and promoters in Australia, but some. '•littefl d nounc.e the proposal Tfcje commit tea was lonued after the death, last September, of Victorian lightweight champion
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    Johnny Williams Lacks Aggression And Punch
    345 11  -  [By ARCHIE QUICK It was a Door night for British boxing at Ha) r ,;iv mi Fobruorv 28. Pitted against the aged rlnadiun negro Vern Escoe in a British HeavyiV1,Vnr ch°mi)ionship eliminator Johnnv Williams showed once again that he lack-5 both aght 1»iid .punching
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    CHELTENHAM GOLD CUP HAT-TRICK
    97 11 CHELTENHAM, Friday The crack Irish jumper, Cottage Rake. ov-Ticd hy F. lj VicVrman. won the £3,000 Cheltenham Gold Cup Steep echpse today for &c_third year in succession. Ridden by Irish Jockey Auhrey Braba,zon and starting 5-5 on favourite, Cottage Rake jumpeu fai ltlesslv and pulled away
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    Olson And Sands To Box As Cruisers
    292 11 Empire middleweight champion Dave Sands and American Carl Otaon will fight as light-heavyweights in their contest at Sydney Stadium on March 20 at the 11.12 limit. The middleweight limit is 11.«;. The match was first made at ;m 11 limit hut at Olson's
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    KOROSCENKO TO TACKLE ZBISKO TONIGHT
    51 11 For the regular weekly wrestling show at the Great World the promoters have drawn up an attractive programme of two heavyweight and two middleweight contests. Emil Koroscenko, after his hectic match with Layton last week, tackles a man almost as strong as himself, in George
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    RICH PAUPERS' RAISE A VEXED PROBLEM
    325 11 THE forthcoming Grand National—one of the 1 three classic racing events in Britain, on which the Irish Hospitals Trust run their sweepstakeshas drawn attention to a dark cloud with a golden lining which has recently hung over a County Home in Ireland. A County
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    SPIRIT OF SPORT
    49 11 Wong IVnjr Soon hold his t "<>phy in on; hand vvhil.» his righ. arm eneirc'es I'oii! H«.* 1 of Denmark whom ho defeated lasf Saturday in Ihe final of the men's singles in the AO-England Badmin'on Chamidonships io become the world's tepranking pflagmt oi thr game.
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    TEN TEAMS IN JUNIOR CRICKET
    221 11 A NOTABLE absentee from the Singapore Cricket Association tournament this season will be thi Johore Cricket Club who have withdrawn from th. Junior section in which ten teams are competing. The Johore C.C.. it tfill be remembered, played in the senior section— the only tournament
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    JAP STUDENTS EXPEL TABLE TENNIS ACE
    46 11 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO. Fri.—The Japanese Students' Pingpong Federation decided today to expel Olcasu Fujii. Japan's No. 1 pingpong play, r from membership. The association has also written off his name from players scheduled to tour the ifnited States for matches. Reuter-AAP.
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    Red $ Hits Ail-Time Low
    89 12 Red Hits Ail-Time Low NEWS BRIEFS Reuter AAP. HONGKONG, Friday. The jen mir piao in Canton yesterday declined to an all-timt low when HK$l in the black market fetched 22,000 jen mm piao. The Canton authorities arc reported to be dumping silver on the Hongkong market to exchange for foreign
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    CORONATION DAY
    26 12 A.P. BANGKOK, Fri.— Ti>e coronation of young King Phinipon is scheduled on May -> with the 4th, 5th and 6th declared official Thailand p^-nnatin* 1
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    24 12 Reuter. LONDON. Fri. Britain is to recall two attaches from .he British Legation in Budapest as iequested by the Hungaiian Government yestcrdiy.—Rcutei.
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    BAO DAI WILLING TO COME TO TERMS WITH HO CHI MINH
    374 12 Reuter. A.P., U.P. LONDON, Friday. nAn nAJ Chief of the St?tc of Vietn-m, is wilHnj; to reach an understanding ui/h Ho Chi Minh, Moscow trained leader of the rebel Vietminh forces. Rao Dai indicated this in an interview with
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    Uranium Found In Fed. Mines
    108 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Federation has payable deposits of radioactive minerals from which atomic energy is produced. Mr. F.T. Ingham. Director of Geological Survey, states in his 1949 report. He considers It feasible that in the near future uranium ore might be recovered from tin ore
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    23 12 Reuter. B-UfORD, Fri. The Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine. 72. who married the Duke and Duchess of Windsot, has died here. —Reuter.
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    178 12 Reuter. LONDON. Fri. The London stock e*<' >nri"c erxted tlx v '< on a nuiet note. Trading today w i.- '(*> small to produce a marked trend, prices wars inclined to drift lower m neglected 'market g, British Government stocks however were unchanged apart from fr.Ktional falls in
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    265 12 Singapore Ratepayers' Association Says THE Singapore Ratepayers' Association consider the Singapore Development Bill "as undue interference with the rights or the people." Al a rent meeting o f tbe Association. Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. the chairman, pointed out that the bill gave I Government wide
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    40 12 The 20,000 Bandit Chun BMB Yin, the bandit leader, who wan *hot dead by an AuxiUiary Policeman when a gang of bandits attached a cinema in Kepong Milage near Kuaia Lumpur. Chan had a reward of $20,000 on his head.
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    1,617 Passed In Fed.
    74 12 Cambridge Exam. KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The total number of successful candidates in the IMS Cambridge School Certificate Examination in the Fedciation was 1.617. Of these. 1.260 are boys and 359 girls. Four hundred and five obtained Grade I. 468 Grade 11 and 744 Grade The total
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    17 12 Reuter. HONtiKOWG. Fri. Tht Peking authorities are dealing severely with persons exploiting girls for prostitution.- Reutei.
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    1023 12 GENERAL TODAY SINGAPORE ART SOCIETY: Official opening of Kxhtbition b:' local artists by Sir Patrick Mackerron 5 p.m. YWCA.- Chinese littuMure class 'at 11 a.m. -Raffles Qiia>. SINGAPORE ADMIRALTY LOCAL STAFF UNION; An Dual general maeting at No. 1 I-airer Pars at 2 p.m. METHODIST YOUTH tKLLOWSHIP: s«i\lce
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    Miss To Marry
    49 12 Miss Judith ABoette Gimson, younger daughter of Sir Franklin Jttmson, Governor of Singapore, and Lady Gimwon, is to marry Gap tain Douglas Snowdon. t'» B Queen's Roya' Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. D.J. Snowdon of Duiv/ich, a Reuter rabie from London send v»" terday.
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    TORIES PLAN ANOTHER BLOW FOR LABOUR
    191 12 U.P. LONDON. Frid WINSTON Churchill* resurgent Conscr\a»ive>, ft i ng the Labour Government with a ne; tr 4efetf on the steel bill, today planned another upperc* lt the Socialist strength in Parliament with v of confidence. The Tories planned to make housing the new
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    485 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. A PRETTY young Chinese woman created a scene A in the Second Magistrate's Court today when Inche Annuar dismissed a claim for maintenance on a middle-aged English speaking Chinese whom she alleged was her husband. The woman said she had
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    THE KING AND QUEEN MAY VISIT PARIS
    71 12 CALAIS. Fri. A visit to Paris by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth is definitely in view but nothing concrete has yet been arranged. French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman told Reuter today. Th« French Foreign Minister was speaking on board the French steamer
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