Malaya Tribune, 18 March 1950

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    66 1 MALAYA Tribune by im ft PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tot "Tribune" Spore Published simultaneously ut S mgapore, Kuata Lsump- lpoh and Penang. LARGER SALtS THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 5811/3 Nine Line* TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1950 TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON KRPRR8BSTATIVB B. Maurice
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    KEMPAS STATION BURNT DOWN
    184 1 jOHORE BAHRII. Today wane of armed bandits SJT station last night. \>mpas kalian is Jo mi es from Singapore and miles o.n Johore Bahru. vn ho er Sin t g i; Luala lumpur night x,n."« Station, 'thr bandits arrived. r hev to!d the station taster not
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    Armed Aid Flows To W. Europe
    90 1 A.P. and U.P. WASHINGTON, Fri.— The I S Navy said today that 10 additional destroyer escort have b- signed to North Tieaty nations under the Arms Aid programing a total of 12 in all. All 12 will be overhauled and refitted before being transferred.
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    U.S.I. EXPANDS IMPORT LIST
    265 1  -  Trade With Malaya Will Be Speeded Up BY LAWRENCE G. MANI jHk Indonesian Government will shortly annou ice changes in import regulations which will have th* effect of up traie between I"'! frY+.ttf j"» n '^YIP r «-<-». t>->-A large number of additions are to be
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    END THE WAR
    28 1 A.P. WASHINGTON. Fri—The Western Allies have decided to shelve for the time being a proposal to end the formal state ol war with Germany. -AP.
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    EXCHANGE ENVOYS
    18 1 A.P. CANBERRA, Fri.—Australia and Indonesia will exchange ambassadors. Australian External Affairs Minister Percy Spender disclosed today.—A.P.
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    Today's Best Bets
    36 1 The going will be very heavy at Bukit Timah. where Singapore Turf Club three-day March meeting opens toaay. The two besi bets are May fair and Kimbolton. The best outsider is Little Ned.
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    MAO DEMANDS U.K BACKING TO ENTER U.N.
    89 1 A.P. LONDON. Fri.—Diplomatic officials said today the Chinese Communists have told Britain that they want British backing for Red China's claim to a seat in the United Nations. These informants said that until Britain makes up her mind on this question. British-Chinese efforts
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    THE ATOM WAS TO BLAME
    50 1 U.P. AMAL.RI, Italy. Fri.— Margherita Dedonato, 62, poured alcohol over her dress and set it afire. Her barking dog summoned neighbours wno saved her life. In the hospital recovering from severe burns, she said, "I want to die. I am afraid of the atomic bomb."—U.P.
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    Indo-Pakistan Bid To End Bengal Scare
    168 1 U.P. NEW DELHI, Friday. PRIME Minister Pandit Nehru told the Indian r Parliament today that he and the Pakistan Prime Minister Uaquat Ali Khan might issue a joint statement to meet the "immediate situation of panic and danger" created by recent communal disturbances in
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    HAVE PATIENCE
    42 1 U.P. LAKE SUcChase, *ri.— United Nations SecretaryGeneral Trygve Lie today cautioned patience in efforts to heal the breach in the world organisation and to settle the China problem which led to the walk-out of Russia and her Cominform partners. —U.P.
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    FATE OF S. ASIA HANGS ON KASHMIR
    137 1 LONDON, Pri. Foreign Office quarters said toaay tnat the fate of all southern Asia depended on a rapid solution to the dispute oetween India and Pakistan over Kashmir They said that while tne rift between India and Pakistan is open and both countries
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    INDONESIANS SEIZE SECRET DUTCH PAPERS
    91 1 A.P. JAKARTA. Fri —The Military Governor has seized confidential documents of one of Indonesia's biggest Dutch owned estate organisations and submitted them to the Attorney General, it was reliably learned today. Officers of the Military Governor's office visited J. G. Van Toever. Chairman of the
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    FALSE ALARM?
    60 1 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, Fri.-— Armed police squads surrounded the buliding which housed the United Nations today after a report that a notorious bandit named "Willie the Actor" planned to capture the payroll of the Speary Corporation, owners of the building. "Willie" believed to have carried a recent $64,000
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    M.P. BREAKS LEG
    29 1 A.P. LONDON, Fri.—A 45-year-old Conservative member of Parliament fell and broke ids leg today while rushing to the dicision lobby in the House of Commons. —A.P.
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    TWO KINGS MEET
    98 1 Ming C/si>*A» Swt-j .Vix.g *.eupoiu oi tne iKifiMßi in Gusav'i tioiei in Nice, soum 1« ranee. In Brussels, more than 3u<M><#o j&eigian coal miners ana s*eeiworkers began a 24-hour stn*e touay in protest against exiled Leopold's bid to return to tbe throne. The Socialists along witn the
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    AMERICAN AIDED MIR TO ESCAPE
    144 1 A.P. BOMBAY. Fri.-A Provincial Cabinet source revealed today that an American businessman in India, named Myers, was mainly responsible tor the escape of Mir Laik AU, former Prime Minister of Hydrabad whose entry into Pakistan was officially admitted yesterday. The source revealed that LaiK Ali
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    CO-OPERATION?
    32 1 Reuter. HONGKONG. Fri. The Marine Department of the Hongkong Government in future will withhold from press all imormation regaraing departures and arrivals of snips engaged in running the Nationalist blocKade. —Reuter.
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    HUNT FOR SPIES IN BENGAL
    129 1 Reuter. CALCUTTA, Fri. West Bengal police are now on the lookout for a number of Pakistani service personnel alleged to be roamfng about the state "in full Indian military unuorm, collecting information regarding the disposition o/ troops and other military and police secrets," it was
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    U.S. HAS 'FRIGHTFUL NEW WAR WEAPONS'
    213 1 U.P. CHICAGO. Friday. IiiLFENSE Secretary Louis Johnson said tonight U that American scientists are frightful new weapons of wai that may make an the present ones obsolete In a prepared address, he told a St. Patrick's Day banquet of the Irish Fellowsnip Club that
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    TROOPS HALT RED RIOTS
    78 1 U.P. ROME. Fri.—iroops were called out in the northern industrial city of Turin today when 2,000 Communist-led workers attacked the headquarters of the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement and fought off police with sticks and stones. Six persons were injured. The police used tear gas and fired
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    TIN CONTROL MEET TAKES PLACE MONDAY
    105 1 Reuter. LONDON, Fri.—An attempt to regulate the wor!d supply of tin, which earns dollars for the Sterling area and for the Belgian and Dutch currency areas, will be made when the International Tin Study Group gets down to business in Paris on Monday. Last
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    OKINAWA BASE
    33 1 Reuter. TOKYO, Fri.—The United Stales Air Force in the Pacific is to spend $34.000,000 to develop its base at Okinawa Island, 500 miles south of Japan, it was announced here today.—Reuter.
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    French Find Ho** St*cret Arms Route
    113 1 STOP PRESS Reuter. PARIS, Fri. French reconnaissance aircraft have discovered intense night v on th* Sm-. > t ii frontier near Caobang, where Vietminh guerillas are receiving arms from Chinese gun runners, France Presse Agency reported tonight from Saigon. The Agency said that a
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    MATTRESS ON FIRE
    23 1 A.P. SPRA/, Norui Carolina. Fri —A mattress caught Are in the jail here today and six priscn.rs were, sutfdca:ed.—A P.
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    Brighter Outlook For Tin Shares
    253 2  -  By Tribune Market Correspondent. fIN shares, for long in the doldrums, are again finding buyers and indications are that pHces w ill rise again. Reasons for the new hopefulness in the share market is that instead ol being faced with a tin jur plus, and
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    Tin Prices
    73 2 SINGAPORE. Mar. 17: Tin price was $254 S/4, per picul exsmeltrr. Down |3 7/8. LONDON. March 16. Spot £600. Fp t 1/2. Three months £601. lp f3. Settlement price tWO. Cp t 1/4. Turnover 135. Secoad seanion: Spot £600 1/2. lp ft, Three months £601 1/4. Lp £2
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    ANTI-DUMPING
    62 2 Reuter. OTTAWA. Fri. Canada is applying rarely used dumping laws to prevent cheap Japanese goods flooding the Canadian market at ridiculously low prices. The laws have been applied against "Japanese knitted gloves, men's shirts, children's dresses and cigarette lighters. Anti-dump-ing laws give the Government power to apply a tariff
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    CHINA RELAXES EXPORT CLAMPS
    178 2 Reuter. UONGKONG, Friday. In a move designed to enn courage export of native produce, and thus swell the national exchequer's foreign exchange takings, the Chinese commercial authorities in Shanghai have decided to relax their control on the shipment abroad of certain essential items. These products, purchases
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    Tins Have Fair Attention
    46 2 i SINGAPORE, Mar. 17. Tin shares came in for fair attention at the 1 opening, because of the better price for the metal in London, but in the afternoon closed quiet and steady. Industrials remained firm and rubber shares had small business.
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    Along The Godowns
    63 2 Pcmba (Ml; Knip. Teehurv (Sheers); Tarifa (42/431; H'nkdV (4«): H. Trader <38/l!)>; Sihana (S«>; Mt. Davis (3V.14); Maron <31/S2); Lok Saar (17 1«>: Kistna (19/20>; C. MrLeod (21/ 22); Maria "L" <>:i '.l>; X Sun* (25/2«); Islander .»7>; Martin 12S>; Eurybatet (29/39); Palroelus (15/1«>; Glenartuey (IS/I*>; Aeneas
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    Market Firm On Short Covering
    127 2 Week In Rubber r[E announcement from Indonesia has not produced the selling from there that was expected, says the rubber market report for the week issued by Lewis Peat Ltd. last night. There appear to have been some short accounts in all markets in anticipation
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    YESTERDAY
    135 2 With both London and New York rubber markets firm, the local commodity mirk v opened steady yesterday with good buying. But the market eased slightly towards the close with profit taking. There were no indications as yet that rubber i:* being offered f rom Indonesia. Closing prices in cents
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    WEEK'S PRICES
    140 2 Highest and lowest prices dur ing the week ending March 17 are:— Hlgftert Lowest Closing Buyers Noon Spot Loose 55 1/4 53 54 1/4 X.M.A. 1 RSS FOB April 54 1 2 5= 1 4 54 1 8 R.M.A. 2 RSS FOB April 53 1 2 51 1
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    839 2 Singapore, Mar. 17. Buyers Belitra INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 11.90 12.25 xb., xd AJex. Brick* Pref. 2.40 2.50 Ord. 2.25 8.8. Petrol 34/6 35/6 BJA. Trustees 7.00 8.60 Con. Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/3 cd Ord. 15/ 3 16/6 E. Utd. Assur. 38.75 39.75 Fed Dispensary 6.25 c
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      357 2 RADIO MALAYA BLUE NET WORK E GL,SH PROGRAMMES 10.00 a.m. News from Kt.ala Lumpur; 10.05 Close Down; M OO rrommmfs in Malay. 1 P-"'- Programme Nummary; 102 Dance Muaic by David Le Winter Orchestra Collins Drier*; 1.30 Time Sicca! N< ws Singapore Weekly Share Market Report; 1.50 Interlude; .L *f
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    PROGRESSIVES MAY ADMIT ALIENS
    340 3 LIENS may bo offered an associate membership in the Progressive Party. At present membership of the party is open to those persons who have tbe basic qualification for a vote. At tho third annual general meeting of the Party, next Wednesday, one of the Vice-Presidents. Mr.
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    S'PORE—NAIROBI RADIO PHONE UNDER TEST
    73 3 The radio telephone link between Singapore and Nairobi Is now being tested said a Department of Telecommunications spokesman yesterday. It was announced from London that the SingaporeLondon link will be reopened by the middle of this year. The installations were completed except for a small
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    OVER 1,000,000 PEOPLE IN COLONY NOW
    73 3 The population ot Singapore paSSOd »he onn million mark in December 1949. h was 11)01.504 at the end of the year. This figure includes 1.305 irom the Christmas Island and 1.763 from the CocosKteling Islands. The Chinese population headed the list with i /4.898
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    COLOURS FOR BOYS' BRIGADE
    384 3 T HE Singapore Battalion of the Boys' Brigade will receive new colours at a cor;> mony to be held at. the St Andrews Cathedra! tomorrow at 10.30 a.m. Tho Colours will be given to the Colour Party, the f.th Company, by the President of tiie Singapore
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    European Returned To Find Home Robbed
    203 3 b Moh d Zain a Other Kank, attached to the Royal Arrillprv ri q u Mati was yesterday gaoled for a velr for to find his house in disorder. He consulted his nelghb?»r a Chinese woman named Chua Wee Geok. She told him that
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    BLOOD AND BLUNDER
    633 4 *J«HE American "Readers Digest," in its current number, has an article which is intended to send mi vers down the spines of its 15,000,000 readers, t has condensed a book called "The Road Ahead: america's CreeDing Revolution" by a gentleman v, ailed John T. Flyn. Mr. Flyn's
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    PRINCESS TO MARRY A COMMONER
    894 4  -  PRINCESS Taka, daughter of Hirohito, will break a 2,600-year-old tradition when she marries Mr. Takatsukasa, a commoner. Mr. Takatsukasa's only co mplaint is the salary he gets—shillings a week. by WARREN WHITE Reuter-AAP. TOKYO, PRINCESS Taka, daughter of the "Son of Heaven" (The Emperor Hirohito),
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    REDS GO INTO SECLUSION
    786 4  -  by W.N. EWER Noted political commentator Although no definite arrangements have been made it is now taken for granted that American. British and French Foreign Ministers will meet during the next few weeks probably in London in April. The meeting has no implication of urgency or
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    RAIN FOR $20
    172 4 NEW YORK Dr. Irving Langmuir, Nobel Price winning scientist, reported recently that a single rain-making experiment in New Mexico produced 320 billion gallons of water more than all water in New York city's reservoirs Langmuir. who recently announced his retirement as associate director of tha General Electric
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    AMERICAN LABOUR AGAINST COMMUNISM
    896 4  -  by William Green President of the American of U.S.I.S. THROUGHOUT the ages, poets have, sung the praise of honest toilers and with good reason. Labour builds It is truly constructive. Everywhere in modern civilization, in great cities and on thriving farms, the monumental results of the
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    U.S.I. DEBATES ITS FUTURE
    477 4 JAKARTA. WHETHER the United States of Indonesia, to which sovereignty was transferred from the Netherlands Government recently, is to be an united unitarian state or remain a federal Republic of 16 autonomous states is the subject of a heated debate here. The first Bill to come
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    IS BRITISH VOTING SYSTEM FAIR?
    1493 5 ALTHOUGH be is not quite sure how. the British voter feels that the electoral system has let him down. One of the heaviest votes record has resulted in a irustrating stalemate. NeiGovernment nor Opposition has power. The only certainty is that the whole wearisome business
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    TRAINING MALAYA'S AGRICULTURALISTS
    955 5  -  by RHONA CONNERY FOURTEEN miles south of Kuala Lumpur, past a aumbei of busy roadside rketa the spidery superture of one of two tin mines there is a turning with a board directing you to College of Agriculture. Serdang. U is from this college that most of
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    HE SERVED HIS KING WELL
    1066 5 RADIOS blared at cafe terraces. Multi-coloured posters covered the walls. Four-foot slogans we re chalked UP on the pavements. Brussels looked rather like a carnival city. But -for eight and a half million Belgians the occasion was far more portentous. For the first time In
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    DINOSAUR RETURNS
    172 5 WHEN the talk swings round to the top-ranking historians of Britain a lot of people arc apt to forget a golden-tongued little Scot at the British Museum who specialises in a tidy geological period between the Triassic and the Upper Cretaceous which lasted for 90 million years. Dr
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    NANCY LIKES LAGUNA
    42 6 rHE OCEAN CALLS—Starlet Nancy Olson took a day off from activities at her film st H»d -•••-<' i .it wtrutia Beach. California. But it looks like she's having a hard time getting the rest of shapely Nancy into that foam.
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    Even For This!
    92 6 A.P. ITS not unusual for an actor to use a double tor a dangerous movie stunt se; ne. But now the are using a double for a stagecoat.ii. A genuine stagecoach, which inj.de regular runs in the 1880 s In the southwe' *crn Un it c d
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    IT'S MORE MONKEY BUSINESS
    111 6 HOLLYWOOD, Fri. (tHAt\LEY. chimpanzee boiJ ther of the original Cheetah in the early Tarzan films, is in the movies himself now. He is making his acting debut with June Allyson and Dick Powell in "The Reformer Ana The Redhead." Like his famous brother, who appeared with
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    SHIRLEY'S VISIT
    27 6 Reuter. -viAisILA, k ii. SHIRLEY TEMPLE, Hollywood star, has indicated ta Piesident Qui lino her desire to visit the Pniiippines in the near future. -Reuter.
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    Barbers' Best Bets For 1950
    162 6  -  (By JAMES ARTHUR HOLLYWOOD, Fri. rE BARBERS at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios aren't going to be left hanging by a hair! Better late than never, they've mode up their oxen "barbers' poll" of Hollywood bests for 1949. The studio barbers, who get daily bird's-eye views .of
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    NO RISK HERE
    65 6 A.P. HOLLYWOOD, Fri. THE GOOD, sweet smell of new mown hay is sadly lacking in the farm setting where Irene Dunne and Fred Mac Murray go through romantic scenes for their current picture ("Come Share My Love"). nie hay is there, aud genuine enough it is. But
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    FILM BECAME A REALITY
    779 6  -  BRITISH—FILM COMMENTARY By LEONARD WALLACE London, Fri. ANE of the most impressive British films now being shown fci the West End of London is "Morning Departure." !t is a fine, rie:^ removing and restrained account of the las 1 hours of a group of men entombed
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    Louis' In Hollywood To Stay
    486 6 HOLLYWOOD. Fri. HOLLYWOOD, long regarded as the vacation land of Broadway actors, between seasons that Is, has come up with a prize package. He is Louis Calhern who. after eight months of more diversified roles than Broadway could offer him in eight years, has signed
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    1710 6 by RATING: Fair; ~tßr T, »'MPIRE GAMES. 1950" 'Cathay) Just as interesting as tbe tattler coioj: uun of the XlVth Olympiad held in Britain is this movie recoid of the 19f>0 Britl h Empire Games held in Auckland, New Zealand. last month. It 11 mere than a mere fi'm. It
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    KATHLEEN TRIUMPHS
    106 6 LONDON. Fri. FOR the flrti !ic.J 1 years Kathleen Harrison is not playing a BCreen drudge. Her casting as tin verger's wife in "*lhe verger" episode of "Tri personal triumph :or her. "I get very tired ol Mwavs playing a :nald cr i drab house-wife. BSJJ Kathleen, who
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    ASSIGNMENT IN MEXICO
    72 6 A.P. HOLLYWOOD. Fit 4CTOR John Wayne plans A to produce a film about bull fighting in Mexico after he completes n fccur rent film, "Jet Pil< RKO studios. Wayne plans jpr seven weeks In and armg Mexico City phot. the story J wiU actual locale. Th« star
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    WEDDING BELLS FOR ELIZABETH
    51 6 U.P. HOLLYWOOU. > s riLIZABLi'n TA Ei year-old curvaceott tish-born screen sta marry 23-year-old Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Jr.. on Ma The actress If Ra»engagement to V ley* Jr., several and was previous to have been engagca football star Glenn vr'oinanname was also linK* hfS tically with
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    Nurses In Shirts And Trousers
    408 7 marked as the j I v of «ecruitment since the J n the increase in j f men nurses. of men nurses V ;ip ortant bearing oi 7.000 more ince the Health f the Society is J Ciaddock. [te Registered j mental nurse, in the
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    DO YOU KNOW THAT...
    201 7 Cortisone and acth work against one of the two main kinds of arthritis, the rheumatoid kind. This is an inflammatory disease of the joints. It affects adults from 20 to 60. and also children. Pink disease causes restlessness, weakness, neuritis, and swelling and redness of the
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    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EATING
    822 7 A MAN who fancies a steak and chips and Is given instead a cod cutlet may derive equal nourishment from the fish, but the thwarting of his desire can affect his health. Lord Horder put the point succinctly last week when he explained that a brain
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    HOW CLEVER ARE ANTS?
    218 7 ON the heights of Hampstead. above London, Dr. Derek Wragge Morley pondered over the sagacity of ants. About their industry there could be few doubts. They could be made to work until they literally dropped. About their ingenuity opinion was equally undivided. Communal and work-divid-ing in
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    Don't You Believe It
    239 7 AH AIRY chest does not help a man to twist a poker into an S with his bare hands or pick up a car with his teeth. Some of history's strong men have been hairy, but moat of them have not. Admittedly, there is some Mrlentiflc
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    RAYON FROM SUGAR CANE
    89 7 AAP. BRISBANE, S c i c n tists of the Queensland Sugar Research Institute are inves- j tigating production of rayon and newsprint from a sugar cane fibre. Trie fibre, bagasse, is obtained from the cane after the juice has been extracted. Indications from experiments are
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    1950 ECLIPSES
    43 7 Four eclipses are due in 1950. The sun will be partially obscured on March 18 and Sept. 12. Lunar eclipses will occur April 2 and Sept. 26. a ob bfi/o'j i v. oj i. iihi;ri I nwij IL'nu cj t J
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    $1,000 Car Makes Bow At New York Exhibition
    543 7 NEW YORK. THE $1,000 automobile for which Americans are said to have been waiting went on public display in the foyer of the Waldorf-Astoria Rnt tbe big question still facing the manufacturers of this 84-inch-wheelbase Nash with its 4-cylinder. 18 horsepower engine
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    FIRE-FIGHTING BY HELICOPTER
    1260 8  -  NEW WEAPON TO COMBAT AUSSIE FOREST FIRES By JOHN LOUGHLIN TORB6-J2ERS borne by heli- confer to fire outbreaks In otherwise inaccessible regions of the dense Austra Han eucalyptus forests will be key men in the Victorian Forests Commission's "catch them before thev get awav" attack on the
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    THE RICE FIELDS OF INDONESIA
    594 8  -  by MARTON EBON WE stopped our car on the modern two-lane highway that links overcrowded, hot Jakarta (Batavia) with the cool mountain community of Bandung. Off the road, about a dozen women wr= busy, harvesting rice. Small knives, hidden in the palm of their hands,
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    Utopia In The South Seas
    442 8 WANT to live in a tropical retreat The British Colonial Office reports it operates one—the dimesize Gilbert and Ellice Islands of the storied South Seas, including war-celebrated Tarawa. Among other attractions, the islands have no housing shortage, no poverty, and very low taxes. But whether
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    LONG SERVICE
    31 8 PENZANCE, —Mrs. J. M. Hunter, who retired from the Post Office at Penzance, and his six Prothers and thre,e. sister- have com-•ptc-trd tvntwtVh thrift ~3ff years with the G.P.O,
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    How High Or Low Are You On The Social Scale?
    303 8 Reuter. LONDON. IF you are a barman, you are on the same social sca'e as a road-sweeper; if a reporter, you have the same prestige as a commercial traveller. These are "caste system" findings of a British surveyon how ordinary
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    When A Catholic Meets A Baptist
    313 8 JACOB NICOL. a 26-year-old lorry drivci. was a Baptist. His vivacious. 2J-year-old sweetheart. Lucille Labrecque. was a Catholic Three years ago they crossed the border from Quebec Province into Vermont. U.S.A.. and were mained hy a justice of the peace at Newport. Returning to
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    FIRST FOUR CO-OP HOUSES UP
    352 9 tpORE Government Officers' Co-operative v Society plans to build about 50 houses rear and needs an estimated $500,000 for its M The society has secured approvals for sftl c totalling $100.000 from other co-operative 52ties and they hope to borrow most of the other m
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    GRIFFIN MISSION CALLS ON C—G
    53 9 united States techni- ikj mission to Southided by Mr. »*crt Allen Griffin which tfrtred recently in SingaJjn motored to Bu*it •cr d a y for :i witn the Commis- Mr. MalMac Donald, and his I JJe group plajis to spend five days in Singapore th»
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    CYCLIST HURT
    16 9 cyclist was d down by a lorry Syed Alwi Road He was admitted Hospital.
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    SCHOOL TALK
    39 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The Associate Director of th* United States Information Service. Mr. Lawrence van B. Nichols, will givp a talk on "Higher Education Tn America" at the Chung Hwa Hieh School S°tapak. on Monday. March 20.
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    RESIGNATION
    41 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. t The resignation of Mr. M. V. Del Tufo. MCS. the Federation Deputy Chief Secretary, as an official member of the Federal Legislative Council from March 9, has been accepted by Sir Henry Gurney. the High Commissioner.
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    COUNCIL MEET
    19 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The Council of State of Selangor will meet in the Council Chamber on Tuesday.
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    BANDITS HAVE LOST 1,711 MEN
    150 9 l(UALA LUMPUR, Thursday. Terrorists in Malaya have lost 1,711 men since the Emergency began. Another 439 were wounded but escaped. A 'Government press* release last night gave these figures as bandit losses on Feb. 28. Bandits killed 1086: bandits wounded and escaped —439; bandits wounded
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    SULTANS DUE
    36 9 The Sultan of Pahang is due to arrive in Singapore next Wednesday, by air. He will be joined here by the Sultan of Perak. the Tribune understands. Both are shortly leaving for the U.K.
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    CHEAPER WATER IN RURAL AREAS?
    138 9 MR. Balwant Singh. Member for Rural West will ask at the next meeting of the Legislative Council on Tuesday what steps have been taken by Government to see that people in the rural areas do not have to pay higher water rates than people in
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    A.T.S. GIRL ANSWERS CALL
    261 9 LT. Col. R. W. WatsonHyatt, who last week advertised for women, who had been in the armed services during the war. has obtained the services of an exJunior Commander in the A.T.S. She has had wide experience of radar plotting during the war. Yesterday. Col. WatsonHyatt
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    'Elijah'
    21 9 Members of the Singapore Musical Society Choir practise "r.iijan" lor me iorincoming concert in May at the Victoria Memorial Hall.
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    New Bill To Replace Entertainment Law
    160 9 A BILL to replace the British Military Administration's Entertainments Duty Proclamation will be introduced into the Singapore Legislative Council on Tuesday. The bill does not include the new tax concessions proposed by the Entertainments Duty Policy Committee. It leaves the fixing of such rates
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    NEW MEMBER
    38 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Mr. D. C. Watherston, Secretary for JDefence, has been appointed by the Federation High Commissioner as an official member of the Federal Legislative Council for a period of three years from March 10.
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    NEW C.P.O.
    32 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Mr. H. G. Beverley, wtio has been appointed Chief Police Officer. Trengganu. in place of Mr. Forbes Wallace who is going on leave, has arrived in Trengganu.
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    ZULU DANCE AT RAFFLES SCHOOL
    54 9 The Singapore Institute of Science held a variety concert in aid of the University of Malaya and S.A. T.A. Funds at the Raffles Institution Hall last night. Highlight of the evening's performance was the Zulu dance performed by members of the school under the direction
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    TWO ON ARMED ROBBERY CHARGE
    68 9 Two Hokkiens. Tan Chin Hock and Tan Ah Poh. were yesterday committed to the Assizes by the Relief Court Magistrate, who formally cnarged them with armed robbery at Kampong Bharu on Dec. 18 last. They were allged to have robbed another Chinese. Lee Chow Don
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    PNEUMONIA CLAIMS 29
    55 9 Death by pneumonia in Singapore rose to 29 during the week eliding March 11 as compared to 23 in,the previous week. Enteritis also claimed eight more deaths than the previous week at 21. The total number of deaths during the week was 192. There were 635 babies
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    APPOINTMENTS
    62 9 KUALA LUMPU~ Fri.— Sir Henry Gurney, the Federation High Commissioner, has made che following appointments: Mr. D. T. Waring to be a temporary unofficial member of the Federal Executive Council and Mr. K. J. Cummmg a temporary unofficial member of the Federal Legislative Council, both in place of Mr
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    FEELERS
    39 9 Reuter-AAP. SEOUL, Fn.-Mr. John Chang, South Korean Ambassador to Washington, will fly to Australia and New Zealand soon to sound out views on a possible Pacific Pact Dr. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, told reporters here. —Reuter-AAP.
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    Pensioners See Two Snags In New Plan
    299 9 PENSIONERS in the Government service yesterday expressed anxiety over the new Government scheme for their employment which comes into force on April L Under this plan the pensioners will get four-fifths of the salary of the post which they fill. But pensioners yesterday
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    $15,000 LIGHTERS SOLD FOR $100
    274 9 AN Indian Muslim bankrupt, A. S. Sultan Abdul Kader, with three wives and 11 children to support, told the Chief Justice. Mr. Murray-Aynsley. yesterday that before he became a bankrupt he lived on an average of $1,000 a month. But now, he said, he lived
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    RENT QUESTION ADJOURNED
    65 9 An adjournment was granted by Mr. A. W. Bellamy. President of the Rent Conciliation Board, yesterday, of the application by the Surlingham Nursing Home for a fixing of rent for No. 20. Mount Elizabeth. The application for adjournment was made by consent of the Nursing Home (tenant)
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    FESTIVAL OF FASHION -2ND. SHOW
    168 9 THE Singapore Chinese Ladies Association spent yesterday making final arrangements for the repeat performance of their Mf success, the Chinese Festival of Fashion, at Raffles Hotel. When the show was first presented, two weeks ago, the costumes, from the designs of Mrs. Rosalind Foo. were
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    MALACCA RIVER DREDGING
    46 9 MALACCA. Fri. A new grab hopper, the "Ketam." has arrived in Malacca to continue dredging operations in the river. It was specially built for this purpose and has already begun work. It will be able to remove 600 tons of soil each day.
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    WINS DIPLOMA
    37 9 MALACCA. Fri. Miss Lucy Lim Swee Jee, a former student oi the Methodist, Girls' School, has been awarded the Diploma in dressmaking, designing and tailoring of the Women's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences. London.
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    FORUM BOYS
    34 9 Edward Hogan Shaidali and Sabam Siagiam. Malayan and Indonesian delegates to the New York Herald Tribune Forum, will tell Rhona Connery all about their trip in the. Children's Programme at 6.30 tonight.
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    COLONY BASKETBALL NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
    620 10 WITH the standard of basketball in Singapore comparable to that of any average professional or amateur team in the Philippines, Singapore has plenty of talent waiting to be developed on proper lines. This is the opinion of Fructuoso Diviniagarcia, the captain of the Flying Arrow* —the
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    Dejsada T.K.O—ed In 6th Round
    45 10 AAP. BRISBANE, Fri. Louis Dejsada, Siamese featherweight, was heaten on a technical knockout b> Jackie Ryan Queeiislaiid in the sixth round of their 12 rounds contest here. Dejsada scaled eight stone 13 lbs. and R\un hall a ponnd heavier.— Reuter-AAP.
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    JEWISH OLYMPIC GAMES
    268 10 TEL AVIV. Fri.—Jewish athletes from all parts of the world are expected to come to Tel Aviv early next autumn for the third Maeeabian (Olympic Games). The World Mareabi Union, a Jewish sports organizapon. has announced that it expects 2.000 entrants from 40 countries. The games are
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    Champion Cyclist To Preach
    123 10 I Russell Mockridge. Australian and British Empire track cycling champion, intends to enter the Church of England ministry. A compositor, he will soon begin an Arts course c« Melbourne University and then take a three years' theology course. Mockridge defeated his team-mate, Sid Patterson, world amateur
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    WONG BUCK LEE TO TACKLE KOROSCENKO
    78 10 Groat World wrestling should witness a thrilling fight when popular Wong Buck Lee tackles Emil Koroscenko. the Czechoslovakian strongman. The Chinese boy will be at a considerable weight disadvantage but with his drop-kick tactics he may be just the man to upset hfs powerful
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    FASTEST MAX ON THE TRACK
    64 10 Barney Eweil the tT.S. negro, who won th? world pro feasion&J sprint championship &t Melbourne recently v»ht>i he finianßd first in ail four rare* of the series—the 75. 100, 180 and 220 yards He a. tup a new world record of 21 seconds in the
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    EX—BOXING CHAMPIONS SON IN AMATEUR RING
    358 10 A.P. ELIZABETH, New Jersey, Friday. JHE 17-year-old son of former welterweight and middleweight champion Mickey Walker has entered the novice heavyweight class of an amateur boxing tournament. Young Jimmy, who weighs ISS pounds, will get* his first bout on Match 22. He tiied to
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    VIC RICHARDSON BACKS CHESTER
    50 10 Reuter-AAP. ADELAIDE. Fri Former Australian test captain Vie Richaidson agiees with a proposal made by the English umpire Frank Chester that there shoukl be no appeals by players on the held. "I have been advocating this for years," said Richaison. "It would eluminate all appeals trouble."—Reuter-AAP.
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    BROOKS WINS WITH A DAMAGED HAND
    1102 11  -  A BATTLING KEY IS BORN BY PHILIP GOH nAVE Sands, British Empire middleweight 1 cnampion, will have to leave Australia as v',011 as possible to keep his self-made appointment with Boy Brooks, welier, middle and lightheavyweight champion of the Orient, to avenge ;nt points
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    AUSTRALIANS ROUT SOUTH AFRICAN SIDE
    123 11 JOHANNESBURG. Fri.— The Australians opened the last match of their South African tour here today by dismissing a South African Eleven for 49-—lowest total registered against the tourists. When bad light brought play to a premature end tncy had replied with 137 for four wic
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    TWO GOOD BETS AND OUTSIDER
    174 11  -  Today's Singapore Races BY ALBERT SPENCER The Man With 2,000 Winners After the heavy rains in the past few days and the likelihood of there being more today, punters should be prepared for an upset on the opening day of the Singapore Turf Club March
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    EASY R.A.F. VICTORY OVER S.C.C.
    369 11 R.A.F. Seletar had no difficulty in defeating the S.C.C by four goals to nil in a Senior League soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. From the run of tay the result was never left in doubt for the Airmen were veiy much the superior
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    DOCKYARDERS SCORE FOUR GOALS TO WIN
    187 11 The 30 Bn. R.A O.C. owed their four-nil defeat yesterday in the Junior A-l soccer league against the H.M. Dockyard to poor finishing and excessive dribbling in front of the goal. It wa? their keeper. dea.^b\. who saved a number ot certain goals, and
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    N.Z. MAKE 231 IN UNOFFICIAL TEST
    56 11 Reuter-AAP. DUNEDIN, Fri.—Australia's spin bowler Douglas Ring took seven New Zealand wickets tor 88 runs when the three-day unofficial Test begat! here today. New Zealand made 231 (A. MCGibbon 65, W. Hadlee 54. B. Sutcliffe 42,), and by dose or play Australia had scored
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    Selections
    89 11 CI. 2 Div. 1 IM. ARCTIC LORD Courage Raheen CI. 3 Div. I—6 F. BULL Cinema Flarcpath CI. 3 Div. 2 6 F. KIMBOLTON Pathfinder Katherine II CI. 3 Div. 3 6 F. MAYFAIR Barham Camelia CI. 3 Div. 4 6 F. SHMOO Dundonald Brown Brocade CI. 3 Div.
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    CEYLON TRIES EIGHT BOWLERS AT KARACHI
    158 11 KARACHI. Fri.—A stolid century partnership by All Muddin and Anwar Hussain for the second wicket enabled the Sind Karachi Combined XI to pile up the impressive total of 241 for four wickets when their three-day match against the Ceylonese tourists began here today. Winning
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    ARMY WIN BOXING
    137 11 For the second year in succession the Army won the Inter-Services boxing championship at the Naval Bartacks yesterday. Results Catch w eight special contest: Dvr. Heard (Army) heat E M Clarke (Navy). Fly: L Cpl. Hassan (Army) beat C. K. Mnttad* den (Navy). Bantam: A. B. Morley
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    RACE CARD
    1101 11 RACE ONE —2 P.M. HORSKS. CI AM* 3. T>tV. S B FtBS. *J ARI Humerf II iTtuloh) STbO Mr. A. Fha k Ahannnd Man r Marcher Lord 4 .Lawler) °.00 ••Felstead Stable Amuaement (Lena****! 8.13 M/. Shaw Bros. Northwell .Mawi) B.IS "Goodwood Stable; gf^fcefcg Golden New* <M-Pherson> W
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    MILLIONS IN CHINA STARVE
    316 12 Missions Seeking Aid Arrive In Hongkong Reuter. A.P. U.P. HONGKONG, Friday. WHILE the Nationalists stepped up their bombW ing attacks on Canton and the Shanghai area yesterday. Communist sources revealed that the worst famine in years is developing in yhina. Thousands have already died and millions
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    Soldier On Cheating Charge
    104 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— A British Warrant Officer, Kenneth Wood, was today charged before the President of the Sessions Court, Mr. D M K. Grant, with having cheated Yuen C. Foon in respect of a total of $21,000 in cheque anu cash. He was alleged to have
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    SQUATTERS: NEW METHOD IN PERAK
    100 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri Selangor and Perak are trying out a new method of controlling and protecting the squatters. They are re-group-ing squatter huts into villages. The Chinese squatters, however, are opposed to this because they say they must live on top of their crops in
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    SULTAN'S TOUR
    23 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Sultan of Trengganu recently visited bandit areas in Ulu Kemas?k and Ayer Jerneh during his state tour.
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    WHAM! BIT THE CHAM? MISSES
    39 12 ALrlfci SANDS (right) covers up during a Boy Brooks rush in last night's 15-round Middleweight title of the Orient fight at the Happy World Stadium. Boy Brooks, the holder won fairly comfortably on points.
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    MUSLIMS OPPOSE RENT BILL
    56 12 THE Muslim Welfare Association. Singapore, may call a protest meeting against the proposed Rent Control Ordinance tomorrow afternoon at the New World, if Police permission is granted in time. The Bill, recommended by a special committee appointed by Government, is due for its final reading at
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    NEW RATES FOR LIGHTERMEN
    88 12 The Joint-Consultative Committee representing owners and workers of the Singapore lighterage industry will meet on March 23 to draw up a fresh scale of li?hteraee charces which are more likely to meet the approval of the Colony's three Chambers of Commerce. Aoout four months ago the
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    IDENTIFIED
    37 12 Reuter. MARSEILLES. Fri.- The Begum Aga Khan today identified Francois Sanna as one of the gang who held her and the Aga Khan up and stole her jewels valued at £213,000 near Nice last August —Reuter.
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    WEEK-END DIARY GENERAL
    216 12 TODAY SINGAPORE MYF: LMdnr'F retreat at 309 Sig lap Rjad. at 2.30 p.m. TAMIL METHODIST f HlHf H Film show exhibited by Publicity Dept.. of the Iltpublic of India, on Prime Minister's tour in America, at 1 bhort Et.. at 7 .p.m. 1 CHINESE V.M.C.A.: Chinese chess
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    CHURCH SERVICES
    378 12 TODAY SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH: (5. Penang F.oadi: Sabbath School 3.30 p.m. preaching: service at 5 p.m. TOMORROW METHODIST• Wesley Chinch 10 a.m.: 5 p.m. Straits Ch» neae (X a m p on g Kapot > 9 a.m.. 10 a.m., 4 p.m. 6 p.m.; Paya Lebar 9 a.m..
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    CINEMA
    257 12 CATHAY: "British Kaarifv Games" at 11, 1.45. Ll5. ti.4o, and 9.30 p.n.. Midnight tonight and tomorrow: "A Strange Woman" (Man darin). CAPITOL: "Bevong the Foresf" at 11. 1.4F5. 4. 0.30 ~nd 9.80 !>.ru. Midnight tonight: "Canadian Pacific". Sunday Matinee: "Calumny Jane and Sam Bass" at a.m. AI.HAM BRA: "Panther
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    SPORT
    134 12 TO»>AY RACES: 1st. Day S.T.C. March rooeMiw. CRICKET: S.C.C. v Unicorn on padatttr: Sinhalese v P**P Guard Unit; Kay 3»anK Camp: Ceylon B.C. v Police at Thomson Ro%d. BADMINTON; Malays tournament Union Hall. 2 and 7 p.m.. SOCCER: Tamil B.A. Married v Simrle, Farror Park. GOT.F: Island < l
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    Reds Accuse French Of Using Nationalist Troops
    235 12 Reuter. A.P. and U.P. HONGKONG, Friday. WHILE Chinese Nationalist bombers kept up their attacks on Communists installations on the mainland and invasion craft the Reds charged the French with using Nationalist troops in their fight against Ho Chi Minn's Communist forces in IndoChina.
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    Transfer Of Gurkha Brigade Permanent
    179 12 Reuter-AAP. HONGKONG Friday THE situation in South China has improve 1 sufficiently to warrant "a slight reduction" in Hongkong's defence forros. an official \rJS spokesman announced tocrv He said the recent decision to transfer the 261 h Infantry Brigade taboo* 2.003 troops) to Malaya could
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    Gurkha Hero Stops Train Derailment
    169 12 RUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The courage of a young Gurkha Lance Corporal, who charged a large party of bandits when called upon to surrender, prevented a serious train derailment between Bahau and Kemayan from becoming a major disaster, said an Army Press Release last night. The
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    POLICE DID NOT REVEAL NAME
    72 12 In view of comment that has appeared in certain sections of the press recently it is notified that the identity of the Auxiliary policeman who received $20,000 for the killing of a notorious communist bandit was not released by either the police or the AntiBandit
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    NO STAMPS FOR THESE LETTERS
    66 12 !KUALA LUMPUR, fri. All letters addressed to P O Boxes. Kuala Lumpur 5000 and lpoh 777. neeo no* o» stamoed for the period of the Anti-Bandit Month. This step has been taken to lacintaie uu now oi information to th° Government. A similar concession applies
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    BANDIT HANGED
    60 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The 85th bandit executed under the Emergency Regulations was hanged at the Pudu gaol. Kuala Lumpur, this morning He is Sum Fook son of Sum Kai who was tried on November 14. last year at tne Assies nem at Raub, Pahang, on a charge of
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    PENSIONERS
    64 12 The following were elected officials of the Government Pen sioners' Association. Singapore, for the current year:— President—Mr. E. H. \ulberg. Vice President--Mr. .Kiong Chin Fner. Secretary--Mr. I. Adam Tahar, Asst. Secretai* Mr. Tan Vine Earn. Treasurer—Mr. Gee Kook, Auditor—Mr. F. Villa"euvi and Committee members: Messrs. E. V. Davies. J.
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    LONDON SHARES
    176 12 T onrton. Fr».—WJ»h aridity in domestic issues held in check by political uncertainty remit o' Britain's recent "ra'-or-edce" •'ivtlon interest in the London StO"k Exchange fM«« was confined to overseas stocks. Rubber shares were in demand and inovel iei in active market and there i'ood and v-« '<«»fpd
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    OPTION PERIOD EXTENDED
    116 12 WAR DAMAGE fiE period of opti< n 0 r a award or choose to go to co_.„ s lj b n three to six months n anr-ndment to tl D image Ordinanr intruding r• r will b Introduced into the Legislative Council on ru sdav. It, follows
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    TWO EUROPEANS MISSING OFF H.K.
    68 12 HONGKONG, Fii Two Europeans are flrtlßtng atU: the harbour tragedy v-: night when a motor-boat collided with the Chineseowned Yaumati, a ferry launch. There were thr »■<• Europeans in the motor-boat and a Chinese crew of three in the ferry launch. The missing Europeans arc
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    FIRST LABOUR CASUALTY
    51 12 GLASGOW. Fn. Mr. Adam M'Kinlay, who won th< Dumbartonshire. Scotland, constituency for the Labour Party at the British general election last month, died in hospital here today after a heart attack. His death will cause a byelection in West Dumbartonshire, where he had a majority of 613
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