Malaya Tribune, 30 April 1950

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  • 56 1 Sunday Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Ten Tribune" Spore MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Phone 5811/3 Nine Lines. Published nimultaneousbj at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Prnang. SIXTEEN PAGES. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1950 TEN CENTS. THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice Qlover, Malaya Tribune Office, 143 Fleet Street,
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  • 547 1 Six Bombs And Not One Word Who threw the bomb at Sir Franklin Gimson, the kindly Governor of Singapore? Nobody knows. We do not even know if it was a man or a woman. And why dDn't we know? Because nobody will talk. hundred citizens were crowded
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  • 84 1 I. Feb. 3. Two bomb*. v throws into the S.T.C. depot .Al-Junied Road. Only one exploded. N 8. Mar. Grenade S which faded to go off. thrown into the Robinson Road office of the Chung Shing Jit Pao. pro-(hiang newspaper. 3. A bomb was thrown into the
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  • 88 1 k POLICE constable, armed A with a Sten-gun was knocked down by an unknown Chinese who hit him a umbrella on the Bukit Komah Estate, in the Raub >nea of Pahang. In the struggle that followed, another Chinese aimed a revolver at the constable, but
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  • 40 1 Reuter KARACHI, Sal. Prime Lidquat AJi Khan left today for his month* the United States at itation of President Truman. ilf he would seek I aid he said "I am not going hat in hand." Renter.
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  • 28 1 YORK, Sat.—Sixtyold Admiral Thomas Vinkaid who commanded American naval units against the lapanese in the SouthI Pacific, will retire on iftei 16 years service. R»*uter. 1
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  • 110 1 Reuter-AAP JAKARTA Sat.—lndonesian police and troops- throughout West Java have been ordered to search for the murderers of the two Americans, Mr. Robert Doyle and Professor Raymond Kennedy, killed near tne Bandoeng-Chei ibon road. The village where they were shot at point blank range is
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  • 14 1 HOLLYWOOD, Sat.—Charles Laughton and his actress wife Elsa Lanchester have become American citizens.—
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  • 43 1 Albert Spencer. Tribune Racing Correspondent, scooped yesterdays meeting at Kuala Lumpur wiln SIX WINNERS, four of ihem straight. These were Typhoon. La Traviata, Totlanc i a nd Lord Frederick. His other winning tips were The Bankei I and Clonagh.
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  • 74 1 Reuter. GLASGOW. Sat.- Seventeen Scots, armed with a bearing moie than M*WP signatures, will soon go to London to demand a separate government for Scotland. Chosen here last night to represent the Council of the Scottish Covenant Committee —nucleus of a projected Scottish Parliament—the 17 commissioners
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  • 30 1 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO. Sat. Emperor Hironito, who celebrated his forty-ninth birthday today, is putting on weight under tne Allied Occupation. He has gained 17 lbs. since tne sur-render.—Reuter-AAP.
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  • 42 1 U.P. oa.. J. lie xviiig and Queen leit here today aboard a special tram for a honeymoon in the famous seaside resort of Huahin, on the Gulf of Siam. They will remain there until the coronation on May 5. —U.P.
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  • 152 1 U.P, WASHINGTON. Sat.—Authoritative sources reveal that the United States has been notified that "within the next few days" the Vietnam government of Bao Dai will announce a cabinet re-shuffle, aimed at creating a stronger regime. These sources said it was expected that a "strong-man"
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  • 64 1 SIB Franklin Gimson, spent a busy day yesterday reading messages of congratulation from friends In Singapore and abroad This Tribune picture was taken after he had just read a forcefully-worded cable from the Governor of Hongkong, Sir Alexander Grantham, who is an old friend.
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  • 394 1  - MacBT YAN WORRI ES COLONIAL OFFICE From JIMMY GLOVER LONDON, Saturday.—Mr. Gerard MacBryan s visit to Sarawak "to tell the truth about the £1,000,0000 State Trust Fund" is causing embarrassment to the Colonial Office. And this has not been lightened by the news that MacBryan has withdrawn hi* libel action
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  • 66 1 Tribune Staff Reporter Mr. Macßryan. n- w staying at Raffles HotM. said lasc night: "I am entitled to ft pension of £1,400-a-year for my services connected witn the cession, but -c far tne Crown Agents have not paid me a penny. "I am also entitled to
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  • 61 1 LONDON. Sat.— Forty-nine eggs in mc uiawei oi me i». cuoator lay peacefully on their sides and Egg No. 3*« stood up smartly on its sm'«'l end.. Incabator-owner Charles Blyth. ol South-street, Whitstabie, Kent, shut the draw.r, then reopened it Ministry of Agriculture opinion Is that
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  • 30 1 fcxii. ivvu gins in bathing costumes wrestled to see who could take the gar ters off the other. After ten minutes one of them fell heavily and retired.
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  • 26 1 SUDAN. Sat.—in tne Blue Nile Province of the Sudan, a child burned down the family house. He wanted to stop a flghttf between his parents.
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  • 355 1 KTIALA LUMPUR. Fa; Sir Henry Gurney. High Commissioner for the Federation, hinted at stern tion against a Malayan newspaper in a speech to the Technical Association here to-night. Sir Henry did opt nam* the newspaper, on* v »ic that it was owned by a British
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  • 182 2 GOVT., CITY WORKERS ARE DISAPPOINTED Tribune Staff Reporter THE Government and Municipal Labour Union, Singapore, is protesting against Government's "apparent neglect" to consider the wages and work ing conditions of their daily-paid workers. Mr. R. K. Palayan ,the Union's Secretary, ex pressed "deep disappointment"
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  • 39 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— Normal train service between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur was resumed last night after the damage to the railway bridge between Pa'oh and Bekok stations had been repaired, says an announcement from the Malayan Railway.
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    65 2 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander John Stuart atfter their weddKag at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday. The bride. Miss Brend? E'Jla, wore a class ea! gown o» '-vh.lt embossed satin ami carried white gardenia and gladiolus. She was given away by her lather, Mr. E. K. Ellis. The bes: man
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  • 194 2 Tribune Staff reporter WHEN Sir Patrick and TT Lady McKerron boarded their plane at Kallang Airport yesterday, there was a sad eyed man, with a lump in his throat waving out vigorously until the aircraft was out of sight.
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  • 177 2 Tribune Staff Reporter NINE miles out of Singapore town, thousands of pilgrims from an over Malaya will pray rcr peace at the Colony's 105-year-old Roman Catholic Church —the oldest —winch is toflay ceiebratm? the Feast Day of Its patron saint —St. Josepn... Last night the ooor,of
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  • 32 2 MALACCA. Sat. Girl guide officers from Malacca, northern Johore and parts of Negri Sembilan broke up camp here yesterday after undergoing a five-days course for their campers badge.
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  • 141 2 —And The Weapons Are Posters Tribune Staff Reporter INHERE is a private war going on in Singapore today between the Communists and the anti-Reds. Their weapons are crude posters. They are written in Chinese black ink on white strips of paper measuring
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  • 88 2 Mr. R.C.B. Wiltshire, Deputy Commissioner of the Police, CID. said yesterday: "The Anti Communists seemed to have stepped up their side of the picture since the deluge of Communist posters on Wednesclav." Mr. Nigel Morris. Chief of the Special Branch, said: 'I think there is a central
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  • 43 2 The Pahang Police are offering a $5,000 reward for information which will lead to the capture of any of four notorious Chinese bandits. Goh Tin, Low Cheah. Ah Nok and Wu Kerk. The offer holds good for si v months.
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  • 73 2 1 The Federation Emergency Regulations are being amended to include the death penalty clauses for those who collect or receive any money, food or other supplie. on beha.f of the terrori: t The new amended regulations will come into force on June i. These men
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  • 20 2 Bandits battered to death a Chinese and his wife with a changkol, neat the 88th mile Bentong-Kuala Lumpur Road.
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    • 481 2 RADIO MALAYA the favourites— MM the ftapi ing Annct. Prog. Summaiv ¥T¥7> vi'Tirnnv three, favourite top Minos t,: the with Sitr. Tune; 5.02 Film I arI\ r„ A week in their correct order A; ade; 6.00 Malayan Affairs; .on wm a nriz H-30 he 0««*1 Hindustani Talkie Songs; 6.30 LNGLISH
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  • 140 3 SINGAPORE taxi drivers and trishaw riders have n working for the •Yankee dollar for past three days. Reason: American sailors are in town. Although the gobs a-e Living them gcod busino-u:, few are willing to exactly what they are eem Ing today. one trishaw rider summed
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  • 49 3 I'M NO RED SAYS WOMAN Wcng Ong Kee, a 19-year-old woman, pleaded not guilty before the First District Judge when charged yesterday with being a member of the Malayan Comrr.u--m.-t Party. She was also charged with assisting in the management of the Party. Wong was remanded til! May 16.
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  • 99 3 Students from Malaya, who went to India under the scholarship scheme sponsored by the Government of India, seem to be enjoying the country and settling down well to their studies. Recently, a Malay student, Mr. Anwar Mahmood. son of Mr. Mahmood bin Jais of
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  • 453 3 AS an individual entity, the King Edward VII n College of Medicine has ceased to exist. This is the fate of "all your patients, as all your patients die one day.'' Thus said Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, the CommissionernGeneral and Chancellor
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  • 296 3 HUNDREDS OF Y OUNG GIRLS SUFFER IN S'PORE MADE THIRD WIVES THEN CAST ASIDE WHEN BABIES ARE BORN Tribune Staff Reporter HUNDREDS of young Chinese girls in Singapore are today living on the verge of prostitution. They are the second and third wives of towkays and Well-to-do Chinese who have
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  • 84 3 Mr. S. Sinathamby. State Councillor and President of the Negri Sembilan Ceylon Tamils Association has agreed to meet the full cost of a scholarship to study Tamil at the University of Malaya. The scholarship is worth $2,400 and will enable a student to take up
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  • 540 3 A TRIBUNE reporter recently (.poke to a few of these unfortunate women in the G eylang-Katong district. Out of all the intimate confidences told him, he has selected six as typical examples. Here they are: CASE No. 1. This is a pretty 21-year-old girl. Although illiterate,
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  • 247 3 Tribune Staff Reporter MR. S. P. Sarathy, Secretary of the Singapore 1,1 Union of Rubber Workers, said yestoSay there was dissatisfaction among workers oyer cur rent wage-rates and working conditions in the Colony's rubber-milling industry. He said that the workers were now demanding
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  • 157 3 Tribune Staff Reporter 1URS. Marjorie Clemons, President of the Society for the Prevention 6f Cruelty to Animals, yesterday condemned Singapore motorists who run over dogs and leave them behind. She said: "It is simply aDOfti'inK' Uic way thede poor injured creatures are left
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  • 43 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat.—A young Sikh, Kewel Singh, who was fined $10 today for failing to appear beloie the Magistrates' Court on Apr. 23 to answer two charges. Kewel said that he had turned up a day late for the hearing.
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  • 179 3 rERE was a day in trisharider Chia Ah Tah's life when everything seemed at an end. He was sick and had no money to consult a doctor. Then, along came "someone" to help him. He was given free medical treatment until he was restored to
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  • 1031 4  -  SINGAPORE NEEDS A a BRIDGE CLUB —WHY HASN'T ONE W BEEN FORMED WHAT HAPPENS NOW a n THE BOARD'S SAID \M •NO' TO THE PIPE ON THE CAUSEWAY WHY POSTPONE THE INTRODUCTION OF TAXI METERS, AFTER PASSING IT B 'Quiz' WHAT HAPPENS now Tf that the
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  • 316 4 A Reply To 'QUIZ' Dear Sir,—Your contributor "QUIZ" in last Sunday's issue of the SUnday Tribune wishes vo be enlightened on the respective merits and demerits of the words ASIAN and ASIATIC. I hasten to offer my humble opinion on the sub ject. The word Asian c
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  • 420 4 WINS $50 PRIZE IN SONG COMPETITION Tribune Staff Reporter pROM fireman to a successful music composer is a romantic change-over. And for that to happen to a fisherman's son, with only a primary education, sounds dramatic, to say the least. Vnf thic in f Ka trim utnrif
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  • 298 4 Tribune Staff Reporter TWO shipments of rice worth $450,000 are row lying in lighters in Dore harbour men to the weather, because Government has refused permission to their owners to unload them in the Colonyeven for temporary storage. The shipments. 650 tons
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    • 315 4 USE JOHNSQNS PRICKLY HEAT P*f r POWDER AS A MEDICATED /S heat DUSTING POWDER TD PREVENT w Oer MINOR SKIN IRRITATIONS; SINGAPORE FOOT AND PRICKLY HEAT j What is your sight worth Sl5. $25. $50? JB^^ rhe probability is you woulJ nt /7 "*SS»^Nt nesitate to spend whatever is fl
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  • 275 5 OPIUM SMUGGLERS UP TO NEW TRICKS Tribune Staff Reporter OPIUM smugglers are resorting to new ruses to get their "black gold" across the causeway. Recently a well-dressed man in a flashy automobile, with two cabaret-girl companions sitting beside him, approached the Customs Office
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  • 51 5 MALACA. Sat. The Federation police band will beat the Retreat at 5.30 pm. on Tuesday at Alor Gajah; on May 3 at Jasin and on May 4 at Malacca on the reclamation ground. The band will also play at the Malaya Cup match at 1 Kubu on May
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  • 37 5 Convicted of being in possession of 25 tahils and Aye chis of opium on April 20 at Naval Base, Poh Ah Tay was sentenced in the First District Court yesterday to 8 months' hard labour.
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  • 210 5 Tribune Staff Reporter n k .LiL,\fc it or not, but O the >oung man slapping on rouge and lipstick in the picture above turned into a glamourous Chinese prints five minutes later. (See picture on rtgh:). The young man, 29--yea- old Chan Wai Wah Is one
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  • 52 5 Mohamed Said bin Hadji Ibrahim pleaded guilty to a charge of deserting the Police Force yesterday. He was sentenced to one month's rigorous imprisonment by the First District Judge. After deserting the forre Mohamed was stated to have joined the R.A S.C. His fingerprints gave
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  • 229 5 Tribune Staff Reporter SMALL boys on the beach near the Chinese Swimming Club had great fun recently when some 'mad' British soldiers drove a car into the sea until they were up to their necks in water, then turned in a big sweep and
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  • 259 5 Tribune Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Naval Base Labour Union has 8 written to the Admiralty asking them to provide tiffin sheds and stand pipes for industrial workers at the Base. +v Mr. Koh Kirn Seng, General Secretary of tnt Union, said
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  • 103 5 WHY pay tea money for a house? Take a look at Inche Ahmed Perangs bungalow, it's coot and airy, and il only cost him $4,000 to bu'.'.l. (See picture above). It has two rooms, witn bathrooms attached, a dining and sitting room, and Kitchen, Lights ana
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  • 2854 6  -  By Vera Ardmore HAVE you never envied people's car numbers? Don't you ever give an admiring second look when you see a car with only a single figure number? Of course you do! When Princess Elizabeth received her Daimler from the R.A.F. as a wedding present she asked
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  • 426 6 THOMAS Henry Sih ock. Professor of Economics at the University of Malaya, is much in the public eye at the moment, as Chairman of the Hawkers Commission, Chairman of the Joint Wages Commission, Chairman of the Arbitration Board of the Rubber Industry, and President of the People's Education
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  • Article, Illustration
    1971 7  -  From Jimmy Glover LONDON. Sat. D R Victor Purcell C.M.G., tells me he is planning m visit to the Far ■s, this summer, and according to nres-nt arran-e--wiU be leaving Lon by air on July 14. opt s to visit Burma. Indo-China, Malaya, i Java, the PhilipHongkong, and,
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  • 145 7 THEY BLUSHED WHEN WITH a long lino of guests waiting to be welcomed to her cocktail party last Thursday, Helen Cornell was slightly stunned to find herself shaking hands with a much beribboned and grandly uniformed young man, who beamed at her saying "Ive brought the band." Wondering if her
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  • 614 8 SUNDAY is a good day to talk about Deans. 13 And the Dean we offer for discussion is the Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, scholar, orator—and disciple of Uncle Joe. When he passed through Singapore on his way to the Communist-inspired Australian Peace Congress, we
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  • 2290 8  -  How Hitler chose him to command his personal bodyguard the PERFECT FIGHTING ANIMAL' by DESMOND YOUNG IN the early summer of 1941, when Britain's hold on her Mediterranean lifeline was very precarious, one name was on the lips of every soldier in
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  • 488 9 WIN d'JACK KLINiI Franklin. PenMy mother was aspostrophes"—was I choice for the post ing placid Kastrup Copenhagen, with the nit red turmoil of a lir-sea resue mission. I matured six-footer. rpetuaHy wears a ling smile and a :igar. The
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  • 361 9 IN his little State of Monaco, punching out into the Mediterranean like a clenched fist, it was "St. Rainier's Day" last week, and Prince Rainier III had decided it was an auspicious day to be enthroned. The 2200 Monegasques were en fete with the streets
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  • 345 9 IN the 1945 Labour majority. Stanley Norman Evans was that uncomfortable thing, a back-bench rebel without a clique. Last week, after one Parliamentary stumble and two speeches banging hard up against Government policy. Mr. Evans found himself a junior Minister suddenly minus a job. He stays in
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  • 508 9 CHRISTOPHER Murray Grieve, who as "Hugh McDiarmid" has become Scotland's most famous and most rebellious poet, puts little value on "the English King." and none whatever on the English Cabinet. Last week both institutions showed they valued him rather more highly by granting him a
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  • 211 9 IN the chauffeur's lodge of a massive villa at Mulheim in the British Zone of Germany. Hugo Stinnes was once again making plans for the Ruhr. The palatial villa, with its tapestried rooms empty and silent, had been his home until 1945. Hugo had been "King
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  • 193 9 BEHIND more headlines than almost anybody else in London last week was Captain Colin Reith Coote, new editor of f ho Daily Telegraph. The first issue he nut out carried about 200 in its six pages. For Mr. Coote. who is tall. 56. and a widower, it made
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  • 25 11 .John Wayne obligingly sig-is autograph album for a tan v h.i laid in wait for h'm at .1 West Coast airport.
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  • 1550 11  -  A Battle Picture That Inspi red An Epic by OSWALD HENRY AN Iwo Jima, during one of the bloodiest campains in the Pacific war, when the U.S. Marines were blasting the Japanese out of their hideouts, a cameraman took a picture that made history. "THIS IS
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  • 371 11 HOLLYWOOD Sat. j Inmost of AmcricasmaL .or industries, the JUmJ are faced with the proble.r. oretirement of workers What happens to a worK.r when Ms years of usefu.noss a rc over? That question Is Scoring me re and more tmthe American social
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  • 98 11 HOLLYWOOD. Sar. VETERAN character act or Henry Hull is probably the only man ever to have swallowed his moustache fn public— or, in private, for that matter. "It happened many years ago," Hull relates. "We were playing in Boston and I had a false moustache on my upper
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  • 1135 12  -  The story behind the headlines in the Sands-Brooks Decision BOXING— With The Gloves Off by SPECTATOR The spotlight that turned on Singapore during the Sands-Brooks fight shone too brightly. It blinded the vision of many of our boxing legislators. The fight will long be re
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  • 754 12  -  By Our Correspondent PRACTICALLY every shooting service executed by Malayan layers is a fault. TVrs i<* the minion nl Wong Peng Soon, who examined tne lmemretption of the "service" rule with qualified and authoritative badminton personalities in England during his recent trip. Representations have been
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  • 469 12  -  BY SAM SNEAD Here is a player who was swung rhythmically down into Ww ball. club- head has b?en on the ri 'ht path from the start of tne dovoi sv n But one thing is very wronz. We'll mention later. Notice that the plane of the
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    • 162 12 C JJ WERE SMART o*>o' < OH,VOU'LL U LL HAND ME V WAVE A PACE RWvi JJ vS°r Burly* May git all them sponsors J think of th' real, heavy J full o^grlase' /a\ I ??t P^fl ?^S u 5, LV x TSaiifK //=V\ > ABOUT ~-£VERVTHING )> A-COM.N' OUT,
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  • 1669 13  -  By LINESMAN AT the end of the first month of tournament cricket in Singapore the 'i SDorts Club head the list of playing teams not r ugh any effort of theii but the expensive Q g gesture of the Re- m Club
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  • 396 13 S. C. A. TOURNAMENT Latest Positions p. w; i-. w. L. if. pi« nac4l. 0 3 0 0 31 ctitra i i b 3 o o 27 Indian- I 5 1 I 1 1 r"S <S, 4 1 1 1 j J g ™>™'»
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  • 50 13 LONG ISLAND. New York. Sat.- -A, British motor racing driver's* attempt to make a 24-hour speed and endurance j run in a stock car nere was '< abandoned early tooay after the car was damaged in a I col ision with a deer which i got on to the
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  • 474 14 MALACCA WIN THREE MINUTES FROM TIME Ml AU. Saturday. MALACCA sprang a big surprise today when they 111 beat Johore one-nil in a Malaya Soccer Cup Southern Section fixture on the South Padang here. Malacca's goal was scored three minutes from the final whistle. It was any
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  • 222 14 A team of sailors from me visiting United States aircraft carrier Boxer took a decisive beating at yesterday's swimming gala between the Gobs and the Singapore Swimming Club. Young W. Wolters and tne two Mitchell brothers Barry and Keith, gave tne sailors a
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  • 146 14 'Boxer Team Beats Ho Ho 49 To 34 Pts. THE American basket ball team from the USS Boxer yesterday defeated the Ho Ho Basket ball team by 49 points to 34, at the Great World Arena. The Yankees were leading all the time although the game was a rather close
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    23 14 The Ya Yu Athletic Association basketball team oi Singapore which meets the United States Navy team tonight at the Happy World.
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  • 53 14 MALACC, Sat.—The annual badminton tournament of the St. Peter's Brigade will commence in the first week of May. Members who wish to compete are requested to send in their names to the honorary secretary. Mr. G. B _azaroo, early. Events are senior and junior singles, open doubles
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  • 307 14 IPOH Saturday. DERAK scored their first Malaya Cup victory this r season when they beat Pahane by three poals to one at the Chinese Assembly Hall ground today Pahang led one nil in the first half completely against the run of play. On the change
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  • 131 14 The YM.C.A. played two cricket matches yesterday winning the one on their home ground and losing the game on the S.R C Padang. The S.R.C. won by 83 runs when J. Ross «44» and D'Almeida (35) retired were the principal contri
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  • 407 14 Under tin- patronage of Brigadier H.B\S. King, C.B.E D.reofcor of Ordnance Services, Far East, and by nermisinon ol Col. R.C.C Ti'.r.ton, Commandant 223 BOD, 30 Battalion RAOC held a field day yesterday. Outstanding among tne competitors were Lieut Dolan. who gaified three places
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  • 1988 15  -  SLICKNESS CAUSES A MINOR UPSET By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winners KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. DUNTERS had a good day today when the Sel1 angor Turf Club April meeting was concluded before a large crowd. There was a mild shower of rain during
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  • 43 15 TOTAL POOL: $4556,300 Firnt Prize. So. I»7»14 Second Prfat© No. 898o»7 Third Prtae: No. *****1 Starters: Nos. *****3, *****3, *****9, *****9. *****4, *****0. Consolations: Nos. *****4. *****7, *****9, *****4 *****6, *****7, *****4. *****8, *****3, *****7. Double Totes: 1st: $297. 2nd: 9189.
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  • 66 15 MALACCA. Sat.—The new-Iv-constructed Malacca Sta<h'um will be officially opened en May 6 by the Resident Mr. G. E, C. Wisdom, after which Malacca will play the Royal Air Force from Singapore in the Malaya Oixy competition. A physical training display by the special combined squads of Melay
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    • 184 15 RE X- TO-DAY 5 SHOWS:- f 1 a.m. 1.45 4.00,6.30 9.30 P. M. init7 iTlnTaTF Preceded by a new 3 STOOGES COMEDY 1 UNTOLD PERILS TO unmask ijrHE W0R TODAY 1230 K {ft. 1 915 J Mcrning matinee today at 10 a.m. Ji Ji Car-non features in Technicolor .WiVi'al A
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  • 221 16 NE GRI CLEARS FIRST MALAYA CUP HURDLE BEAT ARMY-NAVY 5-1 Seremban, Saturday. NEGRI cleared its first hurdle m the Mdlaya Cup southern section when they defeated the ArmyNavy by five goals to one at the Station Padang this evening. About 4,000 soccer fans saw Negri lead by three-nil in the
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  • 95 16 The Non-Benders C.C. drew with the SCRC in a friendly cricket match at Hong Lim Green yesterday. Batting first, the NonBenders went all out for 192 runs. T.J. Leijssius and G.E. Bogaars top scored 39 and 36 respectively when Kee Meng accounted for six wickets
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  • 65 16 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat.— Othman bin Monamed, 29, a special constable. wa.« charged today for being found anient from duty at Alk Lee San Estate on March 8 Claiming trial Othman said that he did send a telegram to the police saying that he was sick. He
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  • 155 16 Ong Chew Bee won his third YMCA tennis title yesterday when he defeated A.G.B. Pakir in the men's singles final by 7-5. 6-3. In a hard and thrilling game from strat to finish, both players played well. There was nothing brilliant in Chew Bee's
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  • 107 16 In the Singapore Harbour Board Foundation Shield soccer played on the Raeburn Park ground yesterday, the Electric De partment beat the Sanitary Department by one goal to nil. The game was keenly con tested and though the Sanitary Department lost they have gave
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  • 110 16 One of the two Sinj gapore Chinese busi- i nessmen who will visit > the British Industry I Fair is Mr. Low Tang S Chang. Who wiil J i leave by BO AC Con- stellation on May 1. i Mr. Low, who visited J >
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  • 93 16 In the main wrest ing Dout at the Happy Wnr'rt St- 1 last night. King Kong won the fight against uaui ..—j--» •11 (ftjtj it;i louad when Burmister was disqualified for foul act.. He held King Kong on the rope King Koug was hardly on
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  • 74 16 The annual general meeting of the Christian Brothers' Schools will be held on Wednesday. May. 17 at 5.15 p.m. at St. Joseph's Institution. Their re-union dinner will take place the following day at 8 p.m. at Robinson's Cafe. Tickets at $3.50 each may Brother Directors
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  • 28 16 Reuter. CAIRO. Sat. -King Abdullah of Jordan is reported to have declared that he will abandon the Arab League whether it iemains in being or not.—Reuter.
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  • 160 16 Tribune Staff Reporter THE Singapore Volunteer Corps who made a 1 presentation of a copy of the Corps' history and a Corps car badge to the now retired Colonial Secretary, Sir Patrick McKerron, have received the following letter from him: "My dear Colonel. (R W.
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  • 161 16 China's Ping Pong Stars Invited The cream of China's table tennis players may be seen in acvion in Malaya next month, if the terms offered to them by the Singapore Table Tennis Association are accepted. The five players, now touring Macao and -ongkong, ar« the All-China and Taiwan champion. Wong
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  • 22 16 A platoon of the Suffo'ks Regiment shot and killed a barrdit in the Jelebu area of Negri Sembilan on Friday.
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  • 390 16 A.P. U.P. NEW YORK. Sat.—Veteran pitcher. Bobby Feller, showed all his oldtime mastery as he held the Detroit Tigers to eight scattered hits while his Cleveland Indian teammates pounded a decisive victory in the American League baseball It was the second straight win tor the
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