Malaya Tribune, 15 March 1950

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  • 58 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE PEOPLB Tdb 'Tribune" Spore LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN Malaya Phone 5811/3 Nine Lines Published simultaneously of S mgapore, Kueua Lwmj>~-, Ipoh and Penang. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1950 TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice Glover, Malaya Tribune Office, 143 Fleet
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  • 530 1 But Protestations Are Not Enough, Says Lord Mancroft U.P. LONDON, Wednesday. I CRD Mancroft, Chaitman of the Conservative Party Speakers' Association castigated the Government for its failure to win the confidence of the Chinese in Malaya "I am told that there is complete confidenc? in
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  • Article, Illustration
    30 1 President md Madame Vincent Auriol of France on their way to the Guildhall where Ihej were to hear an adores by the Lord Mayor of London.—A.P. Photo. —A.P. Photo.
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  • 42 1 Reuter. GENEVA. Tues.— Belgian .arinv Minister Gaston Eyld a 90-minute semeeting with King Lupoid today at Pregny. neai Geneva. ns arrived here ning to discuss Sunday A indecisive national refer ndtfjfi on the King s return R »ter.
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  • 9 1 A.P. Tues.— Foreign ido Clementis has nrigMd —A.P.
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  • 191 1 Reuter. LONDON, Tuesday. DRITAINIS Labour Government tonight overthrew the third conservative challenge in the new Parliament by 19 votes. With a paper majority of only six on the full membership, it got 308 votes to 28 Q in a division forced by Mr. Winston
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  • 39 1 Reuter. QUEBEC, Tues.—The 32--year-old jeweller J. Albert Guav was today round guilty of murdering his wife by planting a time bomb «a plane in which 23 people dl Guay was sentenced to bf; hanged on June 23.-Reuter.
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  • 74 1 A further Communist attempt at arson was made last night when firebugs threw a smaii iui oi pewnu into the Po'W box at the junction of Jalan Besar and Lavender Street. Two constables on beat abou r ten o c oc*C saw smo.e and flames issuing
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  • 45 1 SYDNEY, Tues.—A two-year-old girl, one of four young children who drank half a bottle of sauterne left over from a party, died a few hours later. The death of the child, Lvnette McGuigan. of Paddfngton, was listed as accidental.—AP. A.P.
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  • 108 1 A.P. WASHINGTON, Tues. The United States Defence Department announced today that Britain will receive nine groups of B-29 Superfortresses under the military aid programme. The Department said thru the first flight of bombers will leave Andres Field, near Washington, on March 20. bearing RAF
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  • 25 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. American synthetic rubhcr plants should stay under Government ownership, the U.S. House of representatives Armed Services Committee declared today.
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  • 195 1 Tribune Film Reporter. STROMBOLI" the new Ingrid Bergman movie made by Italian film dirertor and her lover Roberto Rossellini—has been passed tor general screening in Singapore and the Federation of Malaya with three cuts, totalling 163 feet. The scenes snipped off by Official Film Censor Jack
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  • 94 1 Reuter and U.P. LONDON, Tues.— Police were 'onighi trying to find out who set two banners reading "Peare"' and "Ban the atom bomb" floating over the Houses oi Parliament todry in the shadow of Big Ben. The slogans, painted roughly in white on slxtoo* square
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  • 126 1 PENANG, lesday. 3EVEN persons including an auxiliary S were injured tonight when a hand grenade exploded in Muntri Street, near the Penang General Post Office. None were senously HUT*. The grenade is believed to be locally made. The victims were all Chinese an auxilliary
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  • 66 1 A.P. LONDON, Tues.—The Kint£ handed out honours wj decorations today to mor* than 300 of his subjects. Among them are, Fieia Marshall Slim who received the Order ot the Knight Grand Cross of the Bath and Mr Percy Silhtoe, head of tne Secret Service, wno was
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  • 139 1 U.P. SEROWE, Bechuanaland, Tuesday. |X authority on African affairs said today that of the British-called rtorß nf the Bamangwato tribe of berets. k£S£ "hold? the seeds 8 of periol for he while man in Africa." The authority, whoasked not to be named, said the
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  • 97 1 U.P. LONDON, Tues.—The tin market had a lively afternoon session today witn prices firm and real activity. Spot jumped two sterling to £599-1/4 and three month" improved one and a half sterling to £594-3/4. The spread between spot anci forward reached another B#* low at four and
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  • 46 1 A.P. L.OT.JON. Tues. rrmws Minister Attlee declared today that he is "solely respon sib c' tor uec.ding vvheather his Cabinet memDers are gon<i security risas. He set forth Us view writing in answer to a question Dy conservative oUr Waldron Smitners. —A.P.
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  • 47 1 U.P. SHEERNESS. Engl ano, Tues. —The British submarine. Truculent, which sank In the Thames estuary in January 12 with the loss of 64 lives, was raised today. Special plates will be riveted over the hole and the sun will then be towed Into Sheerness.—U.P.
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  • 86 1 A.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Tues. Nationalist China lodged a formal protest today charging U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie with breaking a promise to Piesident Chiang Kai-shek's government by advocating admittance for Communist China into the United Nations. Nationalist delegate Dr. T. F. Tsiang accused
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  • 65 1 Seretse LONDON, Tues.—Seretse Khama said today that Britain is preparing to splinter the 100.000 Bamangwato people in his African kingdom "into conflicting fragments." He asserted in an interview that the British hope thus to crush tribal resistance to the order banishing himself and his white
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 77 1 ShTtonggiian fc 25-iO.COIiMAH STREfL SINGAPORE. 1 RIDE A RALEIGH THE ALL-STEEL BICYCLE A BETTER CYCLE BULLT AND THERE NEVER WLLL BE! This is the trade mark of Britain's supreme bicycle. I Produced in the World's largest cycle factory. For Aj/ Strength, Quality and Jl A Workmanship insist on Ail Steel
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  • Article, Illustration
    46 2 Mr. and :>irs. Georges M. AntaKi. who were injured in last Saturday's grenade incident at the Adelphi Hotel, seen at Kallang Airport yesterday. They said they were happy to leave Singapore and added: "Maybe we come back again one day." Tribune Picture. Tribune Picture.
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  • 408 2 IT'S all "mektoub" FATE said 35-year-old 1 George Antaki iust before he left Singapore for Cairo yesterday. He was referring to the bomb which was thrown into the Adelphi Hotel at 9.15 p.m. on Saturday night. Antaki ana his 27-year-old-wlfe were injured in the
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  • 28 2 A famous Indian Ornithologist, Mr. Salim All now in Singapore, will talk on "How I became a BirdWatcher" at ten tonight from Radio Malaya, Slnga pore.
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  • 24 2 A lecture on the recent •Singapore Art Exhibition' will be given by Mr. Roy Morrel to the East West Society tomorrow.
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  • 51 2 Poh Huk Yeo and Koh Ah How, both aged 42. admitted in the Fourth Police Court yesterday that they went about collecting money from house to house for a temple fund without permission. Poh was fined $50 and Koh. who had one former conviction, was fined
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  • 50 2 For stealing nine pieces of planks. Mohamed Sharif bin Mchamed Kassim, aged 18. was .sentenced to six weeks' rigorous imprisonment by the Fourth Police Magistrate yesterday. Kassim had one previous conviction. The offence was stated to have occurred at Tampenis Road on March 6.
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  • 52 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues:Four Singapore drivers were fined for traffic offences in the Magistrates' Court today. Tan Choon and Tan Poi Chong were each fined $8 for unlawful parking. Tan Kirn Eng and Sim Hong Ming were fined $7 and $8 respectively for failing to observe the "Stop, Look,
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  • 29 2 A new nrst aid class win be started in YMCA as soon as sufficient number of those interested have submitted their names to the YMCA office.
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  • 118 2 Tests are still being conducted by the Public Works Department to determine the safe bearing capacity of the runway at Kallang Airport. a Government press release announced yesterday. These tests have not yet been completed and it is therefore impossible to draw any conclusions regarding
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  • 73 2 The Singapore Polic? assisted by members of the S.V.C. recently carried out a security check in a rural area of Singapore. Strong sections of the SV.C. under the command of an offic2r entered the area at dawn. Identity cards were checked and all tracks
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  • 64 2 Ten Indians were each lined $15 in the Third Police Court yesterday after they pleaded guilty to gambling with cards. It was stated that on March 11, Inspector Yahaya led a party of police to a house at Syed Alwi Roaa at 11.50 p.m. All the
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  • 252 2 THE Army Civil Service Union has protested to Army authorities over the proposed appointment of ex-officers and warrant officers as junior civil assistants in the War Department. The Union in a letter to the Brigadier-in-chare* Administration at HQ Singapore District claims that these appointments
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  • 48 2 The following are the prize-winning tickets of the Chinese Swimming Club New Pool Fund Unlimited Cash Sweep: Ist Prize: Ticket No. *****—52,567; 2nd PrizeNo. *****—51,284; Third Prize: No. ***** $713 Starters. $142 each: Tickets Nos. *****. *****, ***** *****, *****, *****, ***** and *****.
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  • 247 2 JWO Progressive Commissioners, Mr. A. P. Rajah and Mr. D. Robertson have been appointed to study a medical insurance plan for Municipal staff and their dependents. The plan was drawn up by Mr. X .1 O'Dell the Deputy Municipal Treasurer with the help of
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  • 60 2 An unarmed gang of six or seven Chinese broke into a sundry goods shop in Rangoon Koad and got away with $118 in cash and property in the oarly hours yesterday morning. Entry was made about 3.30 a m The gang confined tile Hokkien proprietor and
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  • 45 2 Charles Tweedie. aged ten, son of the Di Raffles Library ..n i Musein who left this morning by Qantas Oonstellati >n to jots a 'prep' school at V;ne Hall n Sussex. lie was accompanied by Mrs. Pennington, a friend of the lamilv.
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  • 96 2 Rubber ads to swimmers like rubber rings, fl dinghies and balls are jiore of a danger to beginner, than a help. Mr. R. Stevens, spokesman oi the Sinsapor»' Life Saving Corps told Tribune. There had been cassa c! drowning becaus of overwhelming faith
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  • 43 2 Th 2 Singapore Chfl Youth Council will b sentin<? Stain* r's I fixion" at the Presbyterian iJntlrcn on April o. A choir composed ot choristers irom ail chtrcbei under the direction ol Mr Eric S. B. Wee urill render the cantata.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 24 2 6th LAST DAY! 3 shows 3.15 6.30 9.15 pjnEgypt's lilting Musical' Don't miss Opening "Miss BOSSA With NOOR EL-HI DA (in Egvp*' l,ll |B
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 536 2 7.00 p.m. I'roßrumme Summary; Cantonese Selection*; 5.20 MuslRi i-v MK"T>wr»D«r 705 Interlude; 7.15 Popular oil Interlude; 5.33 New* in v i .wix A/! UK X Songm by Sii.aran Kn.nrhong Hakka 5.37 Short Talk in (mmin 2a° ISH PROGRAMMES Party; 8.05 Belay from H.H.C.. tonese; 5.4*» Mandarin songs; 10.00 a.m. >erws
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  • 160 3 A HEROINE MEETS A HERO (tOI VI'K.HS MOI NT- BATTttN of tturma arrived in Kalian}; Airport yesterday and met un old friend, I 1-year-old Vi'o Klin Eng from t tamper Colony at Yeo Qbo Ka«fr. Yeo presented ber with a Qpaooil of iiowers. Tucked to the
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  • 382 3 jOHORE BAHRU, Tuesday. Three brothers Shun; bin Haji Kadu, Jailani and Attan—mem- Auxiliary Police at Parit Sulong fought with a of about 40 armed Chinese banvisit to Kangkar Senanger in the Muar rtly after 5 p.m. on November 11, last, managed to ecape through
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  • 9 3 NHMTR. Tues.--f Victory Savings up to Feb 28.
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  • 218 3 THE present Municipal area double-memKred cofl--1 stituencies will be split into single orates before the next elections. Mr f 0 Assistant Supervisor of Elections told the Tribun. thiS existing double-membered constituencies are: Municipality North East j which ictuincd Mi. N. J. Namazie and Mr. John
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  • 22 3 ■BP i Vlinlv ,r.:wv of th. Singapore \,»*Wur Spurt I n Members of tho Mr. Hoe. held reeenfy thr
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  • 79 3 Batu PAHAT, Tuea. A Ii >,ai old carpentei struck *a tapper on the head with a bnmnv i and hruKS candlestick m the tactd v i..otn of at. Estate here. The assailant then teported to the police that the victun nod drank acid. Pbßc* removed the
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  • 65 3 A.P. HONG KONG. Tue+;.—Aw Boon Haw, wealthy patent medicine king, leaving for Rangoon by plane late today to visit an ancestral tomb, is accompanied by his fourth son Aw is due back in 40 days. Alter paying respects to his late parents on the occasion of
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  • 52 3 jack Travis pleaded not guilty be for;' the First District Judge yesu rday when he was charged with de lacing ids Idi tttllj cai ii aud ratlins, to notify ihe authorities of Ida change al u-idi.... Travis was allowed hail Of $.»1(1. The cas-- was post poned to
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  • 413 3 VjINGAPORE Municipal Architects Department is now working on a tentative plan to build satellite towns where every house will be sold to a Municipal employee on an instalment basis. If the plan is approved the houses are to b built on land owned
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  • 62 3 KUALA SELANGOR, Tues.— In a fight between Malay Special Constables and Indian labourers ol ihe Hosevale Estate. Bukit Kotan last night three mvn and two women la neuters were cllled. Two mote Tamil men were wounded. The Malay constables went to a provision shop on the
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  • 208 3 A POINT whether debts, totalling $1,400, which a iormer Municipal employee was owing at the time of his death, were to be paid on his retirement or on his death, was brought before the High Court yesterday for a ruling. Tho amount is to be paid
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  • 129 3 M, t A V. BEN J AFIELD, the Municipal Welfare .Officer! bw resigned and a M licipSJ I Committee on Mond.t\ ba decided lb advertise fofl ;t Mutably qualified Tauhlcandidate to tin kj* [.ia. iV!i Renj&field's resigi now eaves Oammtasioiiera 11 on- deciding whether be* should
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  • 62 3 KUAIA LUMPUR, Tues. Recruitment of Chinese for the Regular Police Force will take place throughout the Federation at 10 a.m. at nlaces given below: At Sercmban Police Headquarters on March 17, at Penang Po'lce Headquattets on Match 28; at Ipoh Police Headquarters on March
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  • 309 3 K| ALA 14TMPUR, Tun day. —I>V the cud Of 190. nearly 10,000 new citizens had been created and there were many more applications outstanding Of these new citizens 96 per «■< ot were cm ncse, :j pel cent Indians. Ceylonese an<i P&ftistanis a no the
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  • 109 3 Th* BBC. fs oUnnt la kg broadcast srries of elewvt flfre°n r>favamt.>i» In itr e<*i iWfi \a v i vie- tofis" -i or* Ihv PHtitv mush- set in the f imrtatiitl Board's serpen KflJab'*^ Tfi fi-a *s to on T"r>« cay April 18 ar M 345
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  • 26 3 El' ALA LUMPUR, Tues. There were twelve cases of scrub typhus in the Federation dining the week ending Mai*. I. 'there were no deaths
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  • 111 3 MR. C. C. Tan SOttth West) will make I Md in next week's meeting or the Legislative Council to save one ot th< Qoloay'a beauty spots. He will move that the granite quarrying on Lukit Timah Hi)! is causing irreparable (tainai;c t" this natural
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 274 4 Alex Winton steers his first experimental motor car in 189b. It crossed the United States in u3 days on rubber tyres, similar to the bicycle lyres of today with their many spokes and single pneumatic tube. I his buggy, is designed for oil
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  • 79 5 This 1,009-room hotel, largest ever to be built in the Orient, is planned 1 to rise on the grounds of Imperial Palace. Tokyo. Designed by Welton Becket. it represents part of a vast $100,003.000 building programme sponsored by the Japan Development Corporation (American), designed to increase Japan's
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  • 236 5 A.P. MIAMI, Florida, Tuesday. THE t'nited States, combatting what is described s»s n wave of smuggling of Chinese into this country by way of Cuba, arrested two men already waiting sentence for smuggling aliens into tins country. Acting Chief Border Patrol
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  • 108 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues—. tailing $90 wert on three Indians for ion of illegal toddy in tgistrats' Court today. Tr w< r- all arrested in the Ma.-=ai area. Sixty-year old Ramasamy ned $20 for illegal pos« of a gallon of toddy at Hai Yang Estate. Sellapak.
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  • 46 5 A.P. NILA, Tues.—Be UM. Force will turn over 50--the Philippine Government at Nichord* Aii this week, tho Foreign Office acnounctd ign Office said the the first deliveries rican military aid unI nsion ol" tlic States- -Philippines istance Agreement signed last week.—A.P.
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  • 19 5 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO. Tues.—The Jarnment recently fishermen and shiplinst "mysterious" mines off Japan's Lst. hinting they were Reuter-AAP.
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  • 20 5 A.P. 'LULU, Tues.—Two tan schooners, the «minog and Kometa, arrived "Honolulu over the weekrheir masters said they vessels.—A.P.
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  • 142 5 THE call by the Singapore Volunteer Corps for women with war experience with anti-aircraft artillery was described yesterday as a "feeler." It is proposed to have them as plotters, radar operators, telephonists, and switch board operators in anti aircraft operations rooms. Applications should be
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  • 24 5 At the Wesley Hall. Fort Canning at 8 tonight. Mr. George G. Thomson will give a lecture on "Making a Citizen."
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  • 161 5 U.P. PARIS, Tuesday. MARSHALL Plan Ambassador W. Avcrell Harriin man said yesterday that the United States will out its full weight beliind efforts to break down trade barriers in Western Europe during the next He called the liberalization of trade between Marshall Plan
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  • 311 5 A.P. PAKISTAN, Tues. nformed neutral 'n this capital of il said today that nd Pakistan are "about to conflagration as -> have ever been." ired the problem of war and the setI current Hindu<'"i economic troubles Tuirc wise- statcsmanibility of war
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  • 515 5 MR. C. W. Byrde, Superintendent of the Police Radio Division told Singaporeans last night how best they can combat the outbreak of terror in the Colony. He said: "In the event of a strange person hanging around your home, or the street outside
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  • 39 5 MALACCA, Tues. Mrs. Alice de Souza, of Chan Teck Chye Avenue, told the Circuit Magistrate, Mr. S. Bon Bernard, yesterday that an elderly Malay. Manap bin Saad, stole her turkey worth $5. Manap was fined $25.
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  • 32 5 Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG, Tues.—The Russian Daily News, most popular Russian-language daily in Shanghai, has closed down after an existence of 17 years, according to recent arrivals from the North.—Reuter-AAP.
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  • 175 5 LUMPUR, Tuesday. One Malay Police Constable, one Chinese Detective, one Malay extra Police Constable driver and one Chinese civilian were killed by bandits who attacked a police vehicle, taking an injured Chinese to hospital. The injured Chinese was one of several, who ran away when
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  • 75 5 THE Singapore Mercantile Co-operative Thrift ana Loan Society will hold it* 20th annual general meeting on March 20 at the Co-op. Societies Dept. Jn Fullerton Building. The meeting will discuss, among other things, payments to the Singapore Cooperators' Scholarship Fund and the Singapore AntiTuberculosis
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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    • 511 5 REFRIGERATOR, kerosene convened electricity, perfect condition, cheap running $400 or nearest offer. Cane settee chairs tables complete cushions $250 cr nearest offer. Toy Jeep $40. Post Box 498. (V.986). VEHS. FOR SALE SUNBEAM Talbot Saloon. 47. Ist. class condition. Ins. comp. to Jan. 1951. Regular service. For qi ick saie.
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  • 562 6 THE young Indonesian Government takes its first step to restore the once rich trade of Java and Sumatra. It also sets out to attract investors, whose capital—in good sterling or gold dollars— is needed to revive old industries and create new ones. Inevitably the problem is foreign
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  • 1357 6  -  by CRITIC NO man's personal and social credo is more important to Asia than that of Mao Tsetung. Mao is not merely the leader of the Chinese Revolution but he is also the father or a new political philosophy which is shaping the social
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  • 508 6 A.P. CAIRO AN American archaeological expedition is busy digging for traces of ancient AraD ccivilsation in one of the least explored areas of the world the hot and sandy South Arabian peninsula. Large portions of this peninsula are nearly as much of a mystery to scientists
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  • 254 6 THE magnificent work of 1 early Buddhists in India formed the greater part of the theme of a lecture delivered in London recently by Dr. B. N. Puri, lecturer in History at Luckow University, who is at present at Oxford on a special research scholarship studying the
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  • 945 6  -  By ROY MACARTNEY Reuier. AAP. TOKYO, THE iron curtain is today drawn just as tightly a:ong the shore of the Pacific an across Eastern Furcpe. Reports brought ba.r; by Japanese prisoner;-, of war recently repatriated from Siberia indicate that this groat province which ten
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  • 387 6 Reuter. DURBAN |X)RTY, patient, industrious T men from various South African Government departments, are today winning the battle against the of disease-carrying tsetse fly. Five years ago, this fly held undisputed sway over 7,000 square miles of territory From the Tugela River to Portuguese
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  • 43 6 U.P. NEW YORK, T Enough powdered milk to make 2,500,000 cup? of wholesome milk will be loader today by the United Nation? Internationa' Children Emergency Fund for shipment to North Borneo. Hotv Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines and Thailand UP.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • 369 7 U.P. ATLANTA, Georgia, Tuesday j E French experts analysing Coca Cola "at the urge of the Communists will find phosphoric acid in it all right. The manufacturers of the soft drink in thf Gibson Girl bottle, which has given a Communist nist a
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  • 177 7 A.P. ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, Tuesday. HEADQUARTERS of the Booker T. Washington n Birthplace Memorial said that Congress has approved an appropriation of US$BO,OOO for the purchase of the birthplace of another Negro leader. George Washington Carver, at Diamond, Missouri. S. J. Phillips, President of the George
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  • 25 7 A.P. NEW DELHI, Tues.—Six-ty-four Indian doctors were trained in BCG vaccination for tuberculosis last year and 41 more will be trained this year.—A.P.
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  • 95 7 Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG. Tues.—The Tram Workers W lodge a protest Police Commisainst the deportai Xt ung Shiu-lung. riiairman of the Union. r/i Union, in a stateihat the deporthelr vice chairunreasonable." meeting last evening, were told by their tat the managerefused to rein.ased employees, and had also
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  • 48 7 Reuter-AAP Tues. Mr. th, of Kings Cross. with a kite, the kite out over rem a cliff top, runs through a pulley below the kite. rod and reel governs the string of the kite. said the r.rst tins metkod he b —Reuter-AAP
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  • 75 7 A.P. LOGAN*. UTAH. Tues.—E. a rancher in ng's Star Valley hung a lighted lantern in ard in the belief It would keep elk away irom his haystack. Almen said he looklate at night to see Light was still burnvas moving around the stock
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  • 62 7 A.P. MA NI LA, Tues.—Routine imination for all ho Philippine diplomatic passports; unless spelption is requested i by the Foreign Ot! ordered henceforth. v M part of general u r up of examination of I md personal efpersons entering the Philippines imposition of
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  • 22 7 A.P. Tues.—The ofNews Agency that Czech razor so good that the the Middle East no others on their Ktrds. a.p.
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  • 38 7 The Moi people of Southern Annum are the aborigines ot n>rto-v >vi a. Xojut i,. 0,1 00 of them inhabit the Annamite chain of mountains in Southern Annam. Above is a Moi headman.—A.P. Photo. —A.P. Photo.
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  • 183 7 Reuter. LONDON, Tuesday. FOUNDATIONS and site-works of Britain's first comprehensive Health Centre at Woodberry Down, Stoke Newington, in north London, are new complete and work has begun on the main buildings. Planned as one of several in the first stage of providing Health Centres
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  • 42 7 A.P. HONGKONG, Tues— Fiongkong's water supply was reckoned today at not more than 90 days with reservoirs down to 2,620 million gallons. This is the rainy season in South China but so far there has been little rain.—A.P.
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  • 62 7 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE, Tues.— A 12 years* old boy riding a bicycle on a bridge was hurled by a truck into the path of an oncoming car. The. ear tos*ed him back across the bridge into the path of another truck which passed over him. The boy's
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  • 70 7 A.P. MANILA, Tues. Lennart Jakell,, 26, of San Francisco who spent a busy week in the Philippines escorting Vicky Quirino, daughter of the President, leaves for the United States today by plane via Hong Kong and Tokyo. He said they have promised to send each other prints
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  • 293 7 A.P. HELMSTEDT, Tuesday. DUSINESS is good 24 hours a day in Germany's newest "boom town." "Kushdorf," the unofficial name of a group of wooden shacks on the super highway to Berlin is only 200 yards from the Soviet zone border. It has
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  • 114 7 U.P. REDWOOD CITY, California, Tues. While Logan, 46. a restaurant cook, was held for investigation oi murder today after he shot and killed a patron who objected to the price of a Hamburger sandwich Police said the victim was E. G. Moore, 34, a Redwood
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  • 188 7 A.P. NEW YORK, Tues.—Anton Karas who found fame in England as the "background music" for the Carol ReedGraham Greece film, "The Third Man is enjoying more success in the United State-. Since his arrival in New York, the Austrian Zither maestro has been the
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  • 90 7 Reuter-AAP. LAUNCESTON, Tues.—A Launceston suburban gardener has retired defeated by a cow and officialdom. When the cow brc-ie into his garden he phoned the Launceston police station which referred him to the local police station, which referred him to the pound ranger, who
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  • 35 7 A.P. TEL AVIV. ISRAEL, Tues. —"Winter Help campaign, organised by the Jewish Agency to collect clothes for immigrants, brought in 15.500 sacks of usable clothing and nearly 25,000 pounds of waste clothing.— A.P.
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  • 93 7 U.P. NEW YORK, Tues. Producers of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's television show today called off next Sunday's programme, on which singer Paul Robeson was slated to appear, after receiving a flood of protest calls. The roundtable was slated to discuss "Position of the Negro in American political life".
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  • 297 8 '3 HAVE DISPLAYED RED SYMPATHIES' WASHINGTON, Tuesday. IT.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, Wisconsin RepubU liean, today attacked three key State Department aids as having shown Communist and demanded investigation of a Navy civilian SMB I- described as working on "topmost deteß oath, at a
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  • 69 8 Reuter. OTTAWA, Tues.—ln India there was a field for largescale farm mechanisation, using large power implements, Mr. Robert Mayhew, Minister of Fisheries, told the Canadian House of Commons today. Mr. Mayhew, who attended the International Labour Organisation conference in India. and the Commonwealth
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  • 71 8 LONDON, Tues. Radio Moscow reported yesterday that 12 members of the Soviet Politburo including Joseph Stalin and Molotov were reclctcd in Sunday's election. Those listed as elected besides Stalin and Molotov were L. M. Kaganovich, K. E. Voroshilov, A. Miloyan, A. A. Andreyev, N. S. Khrushchev, G.
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  • 48 8 U.P. SAN FRANCISCO, Tues.— Eighty-seven people, muny oi them elderly women, were rescued by firemen here today as a $30,000 four-alarm fire gutted a downtown apartment house. Three persons were treated for minor injuries and 17 firemen were' given first aid for smoke inhalation.—U.P.
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  • 303 8 France Will Favour Any Move —Pignon BAO DAI-HO PEACE TALKS? Reuter. SAIGON, Tuesday. DEPORTS of negotiations between Bao Dai (Head 11 of the Vietnam Government) and Ho Chi Minh (leader of the Vietminh autonomist Movement) were based on rumours originating from people representing only a small group without governmental responsibility,
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  • 159 8 Reuter. BELGRADE. Tues.—Marshal Tito in an election speech at Drvar. Bosnia, yesterday called for a stronger army because he said. Yugoslavia now stood alone in the world. He told his audience that a "great part" of the national revenue went to the army because "we
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  • 125 8 AAP. HONGKONG. Tues. Every second resident in Shanghai today is a millionaire -in terms of jen mm piao. Arrivals from the north said the People s Bank of China announced its readiness to issue cassicr orders on request to facilitate transactions involving large
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  • 39 8 U.P. WASHINGTON, Tues. Neither the State Department nor the Philippine embassy had any official comment on the reports from Manila that Quirino's brother Antonio has demanded the recall of United States Ambassador Mr. Myron C. Cowen. —U.P.
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  • 158 8 CHICAGO, Tues.—A U.S.--$4,442 estate left to a Hangr chow. China, orphanage is being held up here pending proof the orphanage has not become a Communist school. The money was bequeathed by Josephine Mead f¥rj<st, former Evanston jis. resident who died in a Shanghai prison
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  • 96 8 U.P. MANILA. Tues.—President Quirino told a press conference in Baguio that, he plans to make a goodwill tour of neighbouring Asiatic countries .and Australia "as soon as I'm ready." The President indicated that his trip may begin soon after the projected meeting in Baguio of the
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  • 129 8 Reuter. HONGKONG. Tues.—The Chinese People's Government is meeting increasing opposition among the public to sales of Victory Bonds, according to independent reports from China. The New China News Agency last hight claimed that 66,400,000 "points" have been subscribed, but neutral sources here doubted whether the
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  • 78 8 Reuter. DETROIT. Tues. —A clerk in Hongkong wrote to ask American George Blair for a share of £14.000 he has willed to his pet parrot called Bob Blair, a 63-year-old ictired policeman, replied that Bob now 50. should live another 50 years and
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  • 218 8 A.P. SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday. fTHE U S. intends to evacuate 1,675 American and 1 other foreign nationals from Communist Shanghai planned and negotiated by the U.S. State Department, will be handled by American President Lines. Mr. George Killion, A.P.L. President, said yesterday that
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  • 59 8 U.P. TOKYO. Tues. De•mocratised women of post-war Japan are committing three times as many crimes as before the Occupation, according to a survey by Tokyo's metropolitan police board. The report cited a sharp increase in violent crimes such as murders and burglaries committed by women. Conservative Japanese
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  • 98 9 A.P. v< >RK Tues Tho Recoo struction Finance Cor«, I llon ycsierday withdrew '■i price quotations for oi its tin. the R.F.C. will ffer for sale long Stai and importe<l i tm accepted in dol,i- as (hade A. Spot tin prices id the prlmarfcet
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  • 50 9 SINGAPORE. Mar Id Tin price was ,S2«n J. -In S -smelter. 1% S 2. P P CUI LONDON Mar. 13 Spot $596. Down £%i months SsB7.Down Settlement price t<><n Down £2. &J7 Turnover: Nil Second session: Spot £598. Down i)«w h rce 4:3'. ,nonths 588 Turnover 70 tons.
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  • 25 9 WASHINGTON. Tues.-A Üb. state Department source said yesterday that Miilippincs United States economic matters were the principal subjects of ■Amhttisadot Cowen's talks here
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  • 167 9 VKU DELHI, Tuesday. India has concluded m agreement with Scindia Steam Navigation Co ..igement of a Government-sponsored shin' corporation to be known as the Eastern Shinping is expected that the corporation vill be registered in Bombay within the next few when it will formally
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  • 42 9 A.P. NEW YORK. Tues. Crude rubber number one futures closed 7 to 10 points lower. Sales totalled 17 contracts. Offers were May 19.10 cents <US> per lb July 18.70 bid: September 18.od. Spot number one ribbed smoked sheets 191 nominal.—A.P.
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  • 98 9 Reuter. LONDON Tues. ProvlL donal value of Britisn exports in February this was i.'155.700.U00, 11 per cent lower than in he Beard of Trade announced. >r a standard working days. >rts were only tit lower than in ul 11 per cent the monthly for 1949 and the
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  • 274 9 WILL AUSTRALIA REVALUE THE A.P. m a STDffaTf Tues. I -"!t)_- to ehaage |«OWKf? f, l ■-t of i.D.sid"'on in Australia. i <i arouad New v„rk s wall 1 anions inoaey bmcvh nirapore, I -'i.-.s--s are that lo taraa of "i i titll A r ««''an today ol Ins sl.illiriirs
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  • 641 9  -  By LAWRENCE G. MANI The importer gets his bid for foreign purchases screened by the central import control authorities. After this, he goes to a bank and buys foreign exchange certificates at the day's price for certificates. Say he wants Straits $100 to
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  • 59 9 A.P. NEW DELHI, Tues.—lndia is experimenting with Chinese and Russian rice to augment her food production. The Chinese variety is popular in Kashmir Valley where it yields about 6,000 lbs. per acre, seven times the yield of Indian seeds. The Russian rice is successfully employed in some high
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  • 137 9 Reuter. AMSTERDAM, Tuesday.—lndonesia's new scheme to increase exports, amounting to a currency devaluation of 67 per cent., will triple the rehabilitation costs of estates, it was stated in estate circles here today. The estates with bigger exports were considered to be in a better
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  • 41 9 SINGAPORE. Mar. 14. Industrials continued to be a firm market with slight improvement in some issues. Tin shares were dull and difficult to negotiate in spite of interesting developments taking place with regard to the metal.
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  • 66 9 Hoemskerk (44); Emp. Tesbury (SHEERS); Boissevain (42 3); Sitsen (40); Merauko—Kotinica < 38/ 9) Silvana (35 6>; Mount Davis (33 4); Nagara (31/2); Pundua (17/8); Kistna (31 2); C McLeod (21 2); Maria L. (23 4); Serempang (25); Star Archturus ,26/7), Eurybates 129 30); Rajah Brooke (16)Relau
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  • 109 9 fpHE ruboer commodity mar- ket opened steady yesterday as more buying continued for shorts covering. The price regained the cent lost on Monday. The export position of Indonesian rubber has still to be clarified. Closing prices in cents per pound were Buyers Sellers No. 1 RSS f.o.b. Apr.
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  • 68 9 Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG. Tues.—The first through freight train, which arrived here from Shanghai yesterday morning, left its return trip this evening. The train was a n™ ying a consignment of 1.000 bales of raw cotton and 575 drums of lubricating oil. Peking communications authorities are
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  • 169 9 TLOVES prices have ni*n during the last month ««Q S^7i from an of $08-Sil per picul to $97 Yesterday a price of sioo was quoted for clovps ar- nving in April by the i Stratsocnda. The big climb I in prices is attributed lv i short crops
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  • 850 9 Singapore, Mar. 14. Buyer* Seller* INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 11.90 12.25 xb., xd Alex. Brickt Pref. 2.40 1.60 Ord. 2.17. 2.25 8.8. Petrol 33/9 34/9 B.M. Trustees 7.50 8.00 Con. Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/3 Ord. 15/3 10/0 E. Utd. Assur. 38.75 39.75 &st. Trust Fed Dispensary 6.25
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    • 30 9 SINGAPORE BAGGAGE transport agency ltd. Association with THE SINGAPORE IMCKING COMPANY *f»r PACKING for PREFERENCE •for SHIPPING Dm Arcade, Tel. 4658 ***** »d Hoor, jf Cable Address:— N '"Kap<irc. "Bagtransag"
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    • 558 9 ISTHMIAN S. S. CO., To BOSTON, NEW YORK, BALTIMORE via SUEZ direct. Also accepting cargo for Gulf ports. S pore P. Sham Penang "Steel Seafarer' Gdn. 7/8 Mar. 13/14 Mar. 16/17 Mar "Steel Executive" 20 25 Mar. 26/27 Mar. 29/30 Mar. "Steel Rover"* 5/10 Apr. 11/12 Apr. 14/15 Apr. calls
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  • 1024 10 Rugby History To Be Made In Wales By PETER LOVEGROVE DUGBY history wUI be mad© at the St. Helen's a Recreation ground, Swansea, on April 32nd. At the famous home of the All Unites, which has seen so many distinguished games and all the greatest
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  • 52 10 Reuter. HILYEKSI >l, hios.Geerlje Wlelema, 15->e:tr old Hutch girl, beat, th* world record for the 100 yard"* back-stroke here, clocking one minute 4.6 «*-co ud*. The ..tlit ii) world r«conl H one minute A.I seniiuN, s«-l up Nf another I loach girl, for Hint, in
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  • 169 10 At the ann ual General Meeting of the Straits Juvenile En ion i Boon Wah Kokl. the foUowlns were elected osnca borers f«n the year ItfdtJ Patrons: Choo Ly< Bust, Baey Kirn Swee, Tan Ngo Siong and Tan Qeefc Tee; President: Mr. Aug Penjj Ka> Vice-P'regtdent a:
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  • 35 10 Reuter. LONDON. Tues. The diM tlie senii-nnai of Ihe P. rbj League Cup. on April I, held st Manchester today resulted fOllOWi BTidnes Bradford Northern or St. Helens and i.eedj Warring" ion. Reiii^i
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  • 119 10 CARL "(Bobo' Olscn, who meets Dave Sands on March 20 at the Sydney Stadium, is so businesslike in his training that Howard Wright, the boxing manager, who was watch J ing him sparring was Jorced to shou r "Steady. P,f">o i Have mercy on them" Oslon
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  • 155 10 A.P. TEXAS. Tuea. Charley Parker of Texas University, ai<]( (1 somewhat by a stiff breeze, ran the 220-yard dnsh in 20 seconds flat on Saturday nig-ht for a new world's record. Parker, who earlier ran the 100 yards dash 9 -i 10 seconds, turned
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  • 100 10 A.P. London. Toes. The Scottish Footsail renin to play ihe Enghsh LMgue at Middlesbrough on March 2"2 was .innotincud today as: Brown (Glasgow dangers*, (Vv (Glasgow R.i. Bvatta (Celtic). Wood burn (Ola* osr R.). H. uitt Parti-k Thistle), Wadded tGlasR.i. Mason iThird Lanark). Bauld (Heart of Midlothian I.
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  • 432 10 A.P. I'HAGUE, Tuesday. THE Official Czech news agency announced yester--1 day that the Czech world champion amateur ice hockey team has been withdrawn from this year s tournament in London. The news agency gave no reason for the sudden withdrawal of the team. It said an
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  • 1083 10 LONDON. r, s. Football League standings liter ."-.-.li.rday'.- match.-.- MIS: ENGLISH I LAU I ItJV. 1 P. 6Y, D. L. F. A P. Mnnchester V. 52 17 M p| :'i it Bia< kpool II 15 in i n» at m Liverpool :u v 12 6 M
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  • 477 10 Reuter. LONDON. Monday piELDJNG a young vi~ile lawn tennis te.im. tralia this venr might well break ih m i t H i States monopoly of the Davis Cup. rhe tennis e»|J which existed between the two nation! in the immediate
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  • 231 10 Reuter. CAPETOWN. Tues.- Western Province Based Usjij match with tho A, fTlassii here and so became the =econ<i province -Natal w. r the Brat—to dans two t with the touring side. Australia, in i.,,i> v> Provinces 3ftt. n>rlaj..i ih*, nrst taatkajm Issed n
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  • 205 11  -  GOOD TIMES CLOCKED IK DEAD GOING BY Vll. 1! ALBERT SPENCER The Aian With 2,000 Winners HER yesterdays rain the track at Bukit Timah was dead for training work thic morning. Consequently there were verv few wiops, only trainers Yor.g's and Manning .arses going fast.
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  • 39 11 A.P. MODENA. Italy. Tues i r e tlnc Manuel Fancio will drive a Ferrari in the Marseilles auto race on Sunday in Mcdena ne said today after a meeting with Enso Ferrari the racing car builder.—A P
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  • 82 11 Reuter. LONDON, Tues—Britain's champion jockey Gordon Richards was today presented with a pair of golden snurs to mark his 22 years of success as champion jockey in the British isles. Proposing the toast of "Gordon Richards'*, the Earl of Rosebery. member of the Jockey Club
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  • 172 11 SHORTLY after his arrival at Kallang Airport th> morning, triple Orient title holder Boy Brooks looking very fit, said that as he could not make the welterweight limit in this Friday's title fight against Alfie Sands he is prepared to stake his middleweight 1 belt. Brooks
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  • 103 11 A.P. LONDON. Tues.—lf the United States is to oualify for the final round cf the world amateur ice hockey championships, it must defeat Holland on Wednesday. The Americans {.ot rff to a poor start on Monday in tiie first rPund, losing to Sweden,
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  • 89 11 Reuter. LONDON. Tues. R E S. Wyatt. of Worcestershire, has been appointed chairman of the England Test selection committee in place of A. F. Holmes of Sussex who resigned through illness. L.E.G. Ames, of Kent, fills the vacancy on the committee. Ames is the first professional
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  • 95 11 A.P. PHILADELPHIA. Tues.— Jersey Joe Walcott, who wants a fourth rack at the hcavvweight hoxing title, adJed weight to his argument on Monday night at the expense of Baltimore's Johnny Skhor, whom he knocked out with an overhand right in the first round of their
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  • 378 11 The wretched condition of the wet pitch did not prevent the Kgta Raja and the British Ordinance Depot Civilian Association from putting up au exciting struggle in a S.A.F.A. Senior League iixture at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Although the Rajas won four-nil, it was
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  • 76 11 Reuter-AAP. AUCKLAND. Tues. The Australian cricket team touring New Zealand dismissed Southland for 50 runs in an hour today when their two-day match began at Invercargill. Jack Iverson. Victoria's bowling "find" of the recent Australian season, «took six wickets for eight runs with
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  • 215 11 After a dull game played on a wet pitch, the O.Y.M.A. (P.M.) restored a fr>ur-three win over aie Town Rangers S.C. in their first Junior B 2 metch at the C.V.M.A. grcund yesterday. The Town Rangers fielded nine players and inspitr of this,
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  • 104 11 Reuter. LONDON, Tues.—The case of Joe HardstafT, the England and Nottinghamshire cricketer, was considered by the advisory County Cricket Committee, who unanimously agreed that HardstafT had erred inadvertently by playing for Auckland in the Plunket Shield in New Zealand, but they exonerated him from blame and
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  • 37 11 Maurice C. Wilks, The Rover Chief Engineer, takes the new model Rover gas turbine car down the long Silvestone Straight at high speed* of up to 90 mile* per hour.
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  • 133 11 MORE than fifty swimmers and holders of lifesaving diplomas have responded to an appeal for volunteers to form a branch of the Royal Life-Saving Society in SingaDore. The society will start off with a refresher course for local swimmers and lifehoptb to patrol tfce five
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    • 194 11 The Orient Scientific Co. Manufacturers of perfumery food* etc .v.. Kuad »11 correspondence tn Mr. N. tbaadran. 1«. Kate ourse. Itoad, ..ipore. Tel: 3H46. •lohore Agent: M. M. IJ. I)ass. OLIVINE j.| m oil Pains in Back Gone in 3 Hours *2i-H s:jf tr f r «"'We. sharp pains or
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    • 691 11 NOTICES THE MOTOR VEHICLES (COMMERCIAL USE) REGULATIONS. Notice of application for variation of a Haulage Permit. I, Tan 800 Kian cf No. 14. Jalan Tcbrau, Joliore Bahru being holder of Haulage Permit No. 2725 give notice of intention to apply for a variation of the above by replacing authorised vehicle
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    • 680 11 NOTICES SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY. TENDERS (For particulars sco Tender Room, Ground Floor. Munk<pal Office). Municipal Secretariat: Supply of approximately 1.250 yards of White Lining Material. Forms from Tender Room. Close NOON—2/3/50. Fire Department- Supply and delivery to the Fire Brigade of uncooked rations for April June. 1950. Particulars from Tender Room.
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    • 490 11 ACCOM. WANTED WANTED: Ground floor .or second floor of Ahophouse for Beauty Saloon. Orchard/Stamford RoAd locality prefem.l. Willing td> pay reasonable compensation. Write to Box A 3402 C/o Malaya Tribune.. Singapore. FOX SALE Five Robinson ,028 Sheet'ng Machines together with shafting and Throw out /car, in go<»d running order. Manager,
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous

  • 340 12 Red Navy And Nationalists In First Clash A.P. U.P. Reuter. HONGKONG, Tuesday. THE Chinese Communist Navy has clashed for the first time with Nationalist warsnip* doing blockade duty in the Pearl River estuary, according to dispatches reaching the Colony today. *ihree Communist naval craft were said
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  • 74 12 FRANKFURT. Tues.—Mrs. Yvette Madsen admitted on the witness stand today that she had shot her husband, Lt. Andrew Madsen. after a quarrel over her Brooklyn accent, last October 28. She said she was out of her mind and first realized that she had shot her husband
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  • 47 12 ROME, Tues. —Friends of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini said today that "they might get married this weekend it tney are able to complete all formalities in time." The formalities inc'ude proof to the Italian authorities that she is free to marry.
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    32 12 VLADIMIR CLEMENTIS, one oi the last two "London Communists" in the Czech Cabinet, who "resigned" yesterday climax months of reports that he was in disfavour in high Communist circles.—U.P. -UP.
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  • 39 12 A.P. HONGKONG, Tues.—The Communist dollar has taken another tumble in Shanghai. The official rate of the United States dollar Jumped 3,000 points to 35,000 to one. Sterling reached 87,500, the Hongkong dollar 5,400, the Straits dollar 10,200.— A.P.
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  • 168 12 A.P. MANILA, Tuesday. X CATHOLIC priest, formerly director of an academy at Macabebe. Pampanga province today asked a couit to annul his "shotgun wedding to a former student. The priest. Rev. Hermogenes Coronel. 30, appeared in his robes on the witness stand
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  • 90 12 DJAKARTA, Tues.—lndonesian police have arrested 17 people, including 12 Dutch police officers, in the past 24 hours in a drive to smash an arms ring believed to be operating from Sourabaya. Police swooped on Sourabaya after the chance discovery yesterday of a
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  • 76 12 U.P. TAIPEI, Tues.—K. C. Wu has withdrawn his resignation and will continue as the helm of the Formosan government as Governor. It was learned that Premier Chen Cheng called on the Governor late yesterday and in a long conversation promised him free hand in his
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  • 58 12 Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG. Tues.—Communists are detaining the captain and crew of tne 50--ton American yacht Voldador at tho former French concession port of Kwangchowwan, South China, on suspicion of being "secret agents," according a semi-official Communist source here. Tne yacht was reported missing two months ago on
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  • 22 12 Reuter. RANGOON. Tuem, Prime Minister Thakin Nu has launched a drive for funds for the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League.—Reuter.
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  • 99 12 Reuter. AUCKLAND, Tues.- Troops and police armed with rifles today hunted for a half-grown leopard escaped from the Auckland Zoo. When the alarm was sounded visitors were hurriedly cleared from the zoo and the gates locked. A search among trees in the grounds showed no
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  • 79 12 A.P. RANGOON, Tues.—Street fighting has broken out: at Prome, among factions ruling the town, it was reported in Rangoon this morning. Burmese rebels blew up a train and destroyed three bridges with dynamite on the railway track near Nyaunslebin. on the RangoonToungoo route. Meanwhile the
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  • 50 12 U.P. BOMBAY. Tues.—Police officially announced three deaths in knife stabbings today in a renewed outbreak of communal violence between Moslems and Hindus. Nine stabbing incidents were reported today. The official casualty toll In the violence since Sunday is now five dead and 24 injured. —U.P.
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  • 31 12 Reuter. QUEENSTOWN. Cape Propince, Tues.—Five prisoners awaiting trial broke out of gaol here today alter shooting the gaoler dead, trussing up the warder, and escaping in the gaoler's car. —Reuter.
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  • 161 12 U.P. Court Told HOLLY WOOD, Tuesday, j ITTLE screen actress Lora Lee Michel said v today that she ran away from her foster mother "because I was hungry all the time." Her foster mother, Mrs. Lorraine Michel, is accused of starving
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  • 325 12 Reuter A.P. NL'W YORK, Tuesday. THERE was a sharp diflerence between the 1 French and Bao Dai's government's regarding tne from of United States aid to Indo-China, the Ntw York Times said in an editorial today. The Times said it mieht be
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  • 48 12 Reuter AAP. HONGKONG, Tues.-Chinese authorities in Canton in the past two months sold nearly -.ooO.oou ounces oi goid iv Hongkong, according to Chinese nrmncial circles. With proceed.-, tr. *To-»jrkong dollars they were i. sifcve purchased teiegi iphic transfers on New ork AAP.
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  • 21 12 U.P. SAN FRANCISCO, Tues.— Dean Acheson insisted today that there were no Communists in the State Department. —U.P.
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  • 102 12 U.P. LONDON. Tues.— (JERTRUDE "Geregeous Gussie" Moran, whose lace panties caused a sensation at Wimbledon last year will wear something "even more shattering" at this year's tournament. British designer Teddy Tinling said today. "Wimbledon has seen nothing until Gorgeous Gussie steps on to the centre
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  • 73 12 A.P. SYDNEY, Tues —Frederick Seymour burned all his wife's clothes because she refused to cut wood for the stove. Charged with malicious damage, resisting arrest and assaulting the police, Seymour was given three months' gaol on the first charge, fined £5 for assaulting the police and
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  • 152 12 Reuter U.P. LONDON, Tuesday. DRIME Minister Clement Attlee held a Cabinet meeting today to consider the growing rebellion of 40 Labour backbenchers who are annoyed with the government's treatment of Bamangwato chiefatin, Seretse Khama. Meanwhile it is reported from Johannesburg that the African National Congress
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  • 58 12 JOHORE BAHRU, Today.— The assistant manager of Orient Division, Mount Austin Estate, last night foiled two bandit attempts to infiltrate into his estate. Johore Police yesterday arrested a Singapore Chinese recognised as a member of the notorious Pontian gang. He has been identified as Boon Hi Wav and
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  • 36 12 Mr. Tan Laik Sye, ihe newly elected chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, will formally ta.'te the chair at a short ceremony at the Chinese Chamber this morning at 11 a.m.
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  • 47 12 MUAR, Today.—Four Chinese bandits armed with three Sten guns and one pistol held up an armed special constable yesterday and robbed him of his identity card and $30. Police are investigating. Four bandits were arrested in the Muar area. Among them was a woman.
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  • 272 12 Tribune Staff Reporter MALAYA is to get more ai-aaft and more w Jl for the war against tne bandits r announced by the Ccmmissionei -Genw office last night. First new planes to arrive will be 0» eight Lincoln four-engine bombers fromrS United Kingdom. These
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  • 86 12 Reuter. LONDON, Tues.—Dick Turpin, the coloured holder of the British middleweight championship, was beaten on points over ten rounds by Baby Day. the coloured American, after a poor contest at the Royal Albert Hall here tonight. Day. a somewhat crude fighter, dictated the trend of
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  • 163 12 at 4 p.m. gf. H <-ra/t-\»ork. L»i.„ (1 i" bwuuuun: I dub at 5 i »Uii.s al tj.:, 1 team vs. K.A.h commercial t p.m. 1 l I Council Haa 3 »0 f r Usfc Edward Ml Dept. of Path g CINEMA 11. 1.40. 4.1.J, t im
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  • 146 12 Reuter. LONDON. Tues.- The b<lwf tnat Great Britain s zcA aoi aollar it-ty» r tr* *zr*de created impro' m sentiment on the lxntlon Stock Exchange t<vi-iy. """rading restricted by usual end 1 Influences but nevertheleai Ml jfa''n« wore widespread. British Government i l •novea nlgher by wne-ei,jhtn pti
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