Malaya Tribune, 30 May 1950

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    62 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE T«± 4 TraW» Sport LARGER iALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Published simultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur. Ipoh ana f enang. Phont 5111/3 Nint U« EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1950 TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice Glover, Malaya
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    POLICE PROBE $700,000 FIRE
    422 1 Crashing Wall Misses Firemen Tribune Staff Reporter. pOUCE ure investigating the origin of a fire which started in a godown in Outram Koad, early this morning, and burnt up $700,000 worth of rubber toloaging to Louis Dreyfus Co., Ltd. The K« down in which the rubber
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    Russia Sets Up 'Cold War Cabinet'
    196 1 Russia Sets Up 'Cold War Cabinet A.P. LONDON, Mon. Diplomatic adl i> I. reaching the foreign Otfice Indicated today Uul Rn i i Miay soon set up >:., oo Curtain counterpart of the "CoUi War Cabinet" created by the Atlantic Pict Power-. The political side b expected to come under
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    Back Again
    33 1 Above is Lady Gimson who returned to Singapore this morning in the R.M.S. Canton from England. Sir Franklin Gimson, Singapore's Governor, boarded the ship at Penang and accompanied her to Singapore.
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    BOUND FOR KARACHI
    21 1 U.P. NEW DELHI. Mon. Str Owen Dixon, V.N. mediator for Kashmir, will leave on Thursday for Karachi. —U.P.
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    Police Hunt For Sadistic Killer
    151 1 U.P. and A.P. LONDON, Monday. UUNDREDS of police and detectives searched today for a sadistic killer who picked up brunette Agnes Mary Walsh in Piccadilly Circus on Saturday and left her nearly-nude body in a rented room with her own silk stocking knotted around her
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    PILOT KILLED
    29 1 A.P. LBISGE. ITALY. Mon. An American P-38 of the Italian Atr Force crashed near a military airfield at Leege today killing the pilot. Lieut. Carlo ScuosimaraS.— A,P.
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    AFTER THE FLOOD
    30 1 U.P. WINNIPEG, MANITOBA. Mon.—The tide of Manitoba flood refugees, mostly women, children, the old and the sick, was slowly beginning to flow back into Winnipeg today.— U.P.
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    ANTICIPATION
    55 1 Wing-Kenng taken a shot at go during yesterday's game between the Sing Tao Foothall Club ami (he Singapore Malays aWßlan Besar Stadium. Goalkeeper AnguUa, with outstretched arms had no diflieu v In stuping the ball alter Abdul Rahman had slipped and tailen in front of the Sing iao player.
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    Slim To Discuss Defence Of Suez In Cairo
    221 1 U.P. LONDON. Mon. WELL In Tormed quarters said that they considered it. likely that Field Marshal Sir William Slim. Chier of the Imperial General Staff, will go to Cairo in the near future for military talks on the delence of the Suez
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    BANDITS STEAL IDENTITY CARDS
    75 1 JOHORE BAHRU. Today. —Five khaki clad bandits, armed with four rifles and a pistol, held up a bus and a lorry at 12 J mile Muar/ Parit Sulong Road yesterday afternoon. Two passengers in the bus were ordered out and relieved of their identity cards. The
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    PLAN TO OPEN ARMS ROUTE FOILED
    177 1 Reuter. PARIS, Mon. French military aircraft which today flew over Dongkhe, a military post 20 miles south-west of Caobang near the Vietnamese Chinese frontier, declared that the situation was now well in hand. A communique said that Vietminh elements had cut colonial road No.
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    Baguio Decides On Joint Action
    244 1 Reuter. BAGUIO, Monday. /JEN. Carlos P. Romulo. Philippine Foreign Minister, tonight released the text of a resolution adopted by the Conference of seven non-Communist Pacific nations here which he said fixed the principle of "joint action" among them for specific purposes. Gen. Romulo. the conference
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    LIE SEES TRUMAN
    68 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Mon. Mr. Trygve Lie. SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, had an interview with President Truman today, at which the Secretary of State), Mr. Dean Acheson. was also present. The interview lasted about 25 minutes. It followed Mr. Lie s .European tour which took him to
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    U.S. WAR DEAD
    26 1 A.P. WASHINGTON. Mon.—The U.S. will honour its war dead tomorrow in services at cemeteries at home and abroad where American servicemen lie buried.—A.F.
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    MR. GRIFFITHS VISITS TIN MINE IN 'HOT AREA'
    531 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, this morning inspected a Chinese open cast mine in Salak South, six miles from the Federal Capital. Salak is a 'hot area.' He w%s escorted by heavily armoured police*
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    ART SHOW IN VICTORIA HALL
    70 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— An Exhibition ol children's drawings, is on view now in the hall of tne Victoria Institution. Kuala Lumpur. Some of the exhibits are the work of children in London Schools. A small selection i>aows the work now being done by Malay women
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    BEATING THE TIPSTERS
    36 2 A.P. SYDNsKY. Moo. Postal employees have been accused of tapping telephone wires of ieading racing men and soling the betting tips at "ou* rates." Pest Oflicc investigators are looking into the charge. —A.P
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    'MAE WEST CASINO'
    34 2 LAS VEGAS, (NEVADA) Mon.—Actress Mac "VYest is planning to build a $1,000,000 casino and theatre-restaurant in this desert resort, and run it herself, according to h»>r lav >:r Mr Cbartea Cat
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    Nehru. To Lay Indian Association Foundation
    116 2 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who will be here on June 17 will lay the foundationstone of the Indian Association's new building on Balestier Road the sse n day at 5.15 p.m. Only those holding invitation cards will be allowed at the function. Mr. Malcolm Mac
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    EXCESS WEIGHT DRIVERS FINED
    77 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Two Singapore lorry drivers. Tan Gam Scong and Wong Lian Yian. were fined $30 and $50 respectively in the Magistrates' Court today for carrying excess weight on their vehicles Tan and Wong were checked by the Police at the mh mile Scudai Road.
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    Carol Reed Arrives Today
    109 2 f*AROL REED, who pioduced V "The Thiid Man" is expected in Singapore today. Mr. Reed is here to exploic possibilities cf filming of Alexander Korda's production of "A Conrad Story. Mr. Reed i.s accompanied by his associate producer and assistant director. They will spend five weeks
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    Mr. Yap Speaks Up For Asia Insurance
    304 2 MR. Yap Pheng Gek (Nominated) will ask Municipal Commissioners to negative a Committee decision not to allow the use of tht traffic island at Finlayson Green by the Asia Insurance Company for the storage of structural steel. He will ask the Commissioners to
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    Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Seward after their marriage at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Bras. Ba.suh Koad, yesterday. The bride, formerly Miss Elizabeth Vera D<>ve. was given away hy her father, Mr. W. E. Dove. Major Michael Magories acted as best man, and tbe brides mauls were Misses Virginia Gleadell and Pixie Hopkins The bridegroom L w?th Eastern Ager»'»>s. /tfter the ceremony, a reception was held at 2i Fitrct Koad for the 350 gut I
    77 2 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Seward after their marriage at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Bras. Ba.suh Koad, yesterday. The bride, formerly Miss Elizabeth Vera D&lt;&gt;ve. was given away hy her father, Mr. W. E. Dove. Major Michael Magories acted as best man, and tbe brides mauls were Misses Virginia
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    Winners To Play On Prize Night
    210 2 THE best two of the prize winning plays in the Youth Drama and Music Festival, held during the past week, will be presented again on June 3 when prizes will be given by Mr. A. W. Frisby. A'l Uic winning plays will be picsented
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    HAD SAMSU. FINED $150
    47 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Tan Kiew. 48. of Geylang Patah. was fined $150 UI the Magistrates' Court today lor having illicit samsu. He was arrested by the police at Gan San hstate on May 26. with a t'n of sam.su hidden in a sack.
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    BROKE CURFEW
    52 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Found guilty of breaking the curfew in the Straits of Johore off Kampo.ng Pasn. Masai, four Chinese—Tan Bak Ping. 33. Chong SinHoo. 28. Ng Hup Heng. ?i) and Tan Swee rhooh. 50. were each fined ?15- in detault one week's rigorous imprisonment in the Magistrates'
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    DID NOT PAY ROAD TAX
    59 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Pleading guilty to a .summons chaigo of not renewing the road tax of his car for the first half of this year. 20--year-old Kicw Yu Foo of Tii am was fined $15 in the Magistrates' Court today. The tax was not paid
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    OVERCHARGED
    40 2 A.P. MELBOURNE, Mon. A taxi driver who overcharged a man who was rushing his baby daughter to hospita' had his licence cancelled for liff&gt; by the City Council. He had charged £3,10 instead of £2 2 for the trip.—A.P.
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    GAMES TO RAISE MONEY FOR VARSITY
    83 2 The Games Executive Sub-committee of the University Endowment Fund District Appeal Committee, Batu Pahat. at a recent meeting decided to organize football and basketfetfl matches for the Fun and Frolic Fair to be held during school holidays. The football match will be held between
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    NO LICENCE TO SELL CAKES
    48 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon A 56-year-010 Chinese hawker. Chin Fatt. was told by the Magistrate today that be must obtain a licence tint before he sells his waios. Pleading guilty to KHtog Chinese cake at Sedenak Village without a licence, b&lt; was lined $3.
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    20 BANDS FOR MR. YONG’S FUNERAL
    266 2 TWENTY bands will play this morning at the funeral of Mr. Yong Yit Lin, 53-year-old Nngapore Chinese businessman who was shot dead last Thursday. One thousand people have been officially permitted to form the procession, believed to be the longest post-war one. Last night
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    51 NATIONS MEET TODAY ON AVIATION
    350 3 AP. WASHINGTON, Monday. I BOLT 50 countries will take a new look at some old problems when the InterA national Civil Aviation .Organization (ICAO) opens its fourth assembly at Montreal tomorrow. proposals for a global agreement on commercial flying rights md for a world
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    PAN AMERICAN MAKES NET $2,489,000
    138 3 I N thr annual report of Pan American Wo-Id Airways. Inc. for 1949 Juan Tiippc. t i cported estimated imings of $2,489,000 income taxes of Estimated net mii ported for 1948 Vd.ooo after Federal iBCOOBC taxes of $2,942,000. irenues of 151.987,--fnX) reported for 1949 include
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    BURMA, JAPAN TRADE PACT
    34 3 TOKIO. Mon. The International Trade and Indusmnounced that Burma has jvcently-nego-tiated trad*- agreement with Japan. The agreement provides for exchange of good! totalling U5549.000.000 and rs the 1950 calendar yeai.
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    U.K. PAYS UP H'KONG DUES
    133 3 A.P. LONDON, Monday. BRITAIN and Hongkong have reached agreement on financial issue which have been a war "hangover". Britain has repaid Hongkong for war compensation claims met by the Colony—but only where the claims are similar to those which Britain herself has met—such as requisitioning
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    SHANSGHAI CUTS PETROL PRICES
    61 3 A.P. HONGKONG. Mon.—The Chinese Communists have ed gasoline in Shanghai slashed the cost of ration from US$l.7O to US$l.4O per gallon. Meanwhile, the Woosung Gas Company announced a reduction In rates of 25 per cent. The company said the reduction was made possible by reduced operating
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    'FAIR' INTEREST IN MALAYAN PRODUCTS
    70 3 Ajjroduct which attaracted the most attention at the Malay stand at the Earl's Court section of the British Industry's Fair aras timber. Officials *t the stand; with the advice of members of the forestry department, dealt with scores of inquiries from the U.K. and overseas.
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    World Rice Harvest
    120 3 WASHINGTON. Mon. THE Agriculture Department reported today that the world rice harvest for 1949-50 is estimated at 334,000,000.000 pounds of rough rice, three per cent less than the postwar high of 343,000.000,000 pounds harvested in the preceding season. M The report said most of tne decline occurred
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    CLOSED
    20 3 Singapore markets were c»o»ed yesierday »*&gt; r Whit Monday. The following are the share prlci I as on last Friday.
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    Share Quotations
    820 3 Singapore, May 26. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Belleis Atlas Ice 11 »0 12 25 Alex. Brice* P, c f 2.25 2.35 S r rd 2 8.8. Petrol 33/ 34^ x d B.M. Trustees 7.00 7.50 Con. T1» Smelt M /a p rc f 20/3 21/6 xd Ord." 15/6 16/3 E
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    Chinese Dollar Gains Strength
    184 3 U.P. LONDON, Monday. BANKING circles, according to the Financial Times. are hearing remarkable reports from the Far East about the rising strength of the Chinese Communist currency known as the People's Bank of China yuan or dollar. Last January the official rate was announced as 23,000
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    SEA MAIL
    30 3 Surface mail is expected in Singapore today from Thailand. U.S.A.. Hongkong, China. Japan. Gr. Britain, North Ireland. Eire. Europe. North and West Africa. West Indies. Egypt and Ceylon.
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    Tyre Prices Expected To Jump
    109 3 U.P. DETROIT. Mon. Tyre pneez wBl jump abou. five per -cent within a month, president Marry Humphreys, Jr.. of P.S. rubber Co. predicted today. He said the increase would result i from a 40 per cent rise in cost of natural rubber in the last
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    TEXTILE CLAIMS
    63 3 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO. Mon. Foreign importers during April submitted a total of 54 claims against goods, particularly textiles imported from Japan. the International Trade and Industry Ministry disclosed yesterday. The number of claims in the previous month was 40, it added. Most of the claims came from the United
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    LEFT, RIGHT
    636 4 IS the Attlee Government preparing to dismantle socialism in Britain? It would seem so to by the new policy announced over the week-end—a policy fashioned at a secret meeting of Labour Party chiefs in a country mansion at Dorking, Surrey. Sometime ago petrol was taken off the ration.
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    ATOM BOMBS WILL NOT WIN A WAR
    1400 4  -  There is a danger which few people recognize in the present overemphasis on atomic weapons in the American armed forces. Russia could resume piece-meal expansion, and perhaps get away with it, because the United States is reluctant to start using atom bombs, and
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    KING PHUMIPHON IS VERY NERVOUS
    849 4  -  by MILTON MARMOR A.P. BANGKOK. ANY visitor from the western world who watched the people of Thailand during the two months or so of the return of King Phumiphon could not but be impressed with the affection and reverence of the Siamese for their monarch.
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    SOBERING SHOCK
    79 4 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY.—A sudden shock does not necessarily have a sobering effect on a perscn, according to Dr. H.R.R. Grieve, a past president of the British Medical Association here. Dr. Grieve, who was giving evidence in a court case, de- clared that the nervous shock of arrest could cause
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    WHAT IS THE MOST USEFUL ADVICE?
    1071 4  -  AMERICAN j NEWSLETTER by J. KERIGAN NEW YORK. THE greatest musical event in America in many years —the transcontinental tour of Arturo Toscanini and the National Broadcasting Company Symphony Orchestra— came to a triumphant close last week with performances in the cities of Pittsburgh.
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    CARD PLAYING WILL PAY HIM
    38 4 ENDICOTT. New York. Mon.—Card playing is going to pay off for an Endicott College sociology instructor. Irving Crespi will write a doctoral thesis on a functional analysis of social card-playing as a leisure
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    UNIONS HOLD PROTEST MEETING TODAY
    253 5 JJUNDREDS of clerks, stenographers, storekeepers and other members of the three Service Unions will attend a mass meeting at the Victoria Memorial Hall today to protest against the delay in granting housing allowance to civilian employees. me meeting which will begin at 6 p.m. will
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    Terrorists Derail Pilot Train
    111 5 The patrol train preceding the night mail from Kuala Lumpur to Penang was derailed last nigh' through terrorist action There were no casualties The line was, as a result, blocked between Temoh and Kampar. The passengers and ether contents of the night mail trains were transhipped.
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    Festival Was A Success
    134 5 ersof the judgI mmittM of the „vi Music Fesed by the Trilay, were full of j ,-uvalandthe i hers' Knion, its an Ang, a leading Colony said: *as of a high Take the senior Convent of the t Jesus for examk i ing of 'the except
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    NEW HOOKS AT RAFFLES
    207 5 owing new l&lt;onka and rrprnu will be added 'to the jbrai within the n»xt #V in (Henry J roes) The Meaning of Di'ino- Brown); Beatar: A (August A. vanJer Oibb: an Kntrineer (Godti. on); Self t.uvernntent »nies (W. R. Ciock- Tide me (Edward Seago); Pattern for
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    TODAY'S PARADE
    27 5 wiii ue held at the nd Transit Centre tv-lay when Majorral D Dunlop, GOC, SinBa: c District, will inscrulta who have I their preliminary timing.
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    POTATOES WORRY CAPTAIN
    115 5 DOUR-HUNDRED tons of seed-potatoes is causing the captain of the Ulysses a lot of worry. The U'ysses, which left Singapore for Indo-China on May 13 was forced to return here because of generator trouble. Repairs are still going on and the potatoes ate beginning to sprout. Members
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    SUED FOR DIVORCE
    48 5 A.P. LOS ANGELES, Mon. John H. Grant, 33, accused of trying to kill his wife and children by planting a bomb in an airliner on April 17 was sued today for divorce by his wife, Betty. 26, on the grounds or adultery and extreme cruelty.—A.P.
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    Old Timers Think Of Windjammer Days
    169 5 YESTERDAY'S arrival of the big Russian schooner, Krab, reminded old timers of the Singapore waterfront of the good old days of sail. The ship which has a crew of seventeen is going from Libau on the Baltic Sea to Vladivostock. The crew carried on
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    10TH FLOOR PLUNGE
    49 5 U.P. RICHMOND. Virgina. Mon. The wife of a vice-president of Philip Morris Company, tobacco Arm, ill and with a divorce pending against her husband, plunge to death from the tenth floor of an office building in her fourth try in two days to end her life.
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    MORE POWERS FOR KELANTAN MENTRI BESAR
    81 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Kelantan Council of State will meet on June 1 at Kola Bahru when Mi. E. L. White will ask what progress has been made with the opening of a Trade or Vocational School in Kelantan. Mr. White will also suggest
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    SMUTS BEDRIDDEN
    30 5 JOHANNESBURG, Mon.— Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts is in bed with sciata at his farm near Pretoria, but doctors said tonight they were not alarmed by his condition.
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    TWO MEN AND A PLANE
    149 5 A WEALTHY restaurant owner and a jobless Englishman yesterday piloted a tiny two-engined Miles Germini craft into Singapore. The restaurant owner was Anthony Vigano, manager of Mario's Restaurant, the largest in Australia. Tony is no air-struck playboy. When he's not flying, he's manag- ing the
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    CONFIRMED
    12 5 A.P. DAMASCUS, Mon. The Syrian Cabinet's resignation was officially confirmed tonight.—A.P.
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    RED PAPER CARTOON: CEYLON PROTESTS
    155 5 Reuter. COLOMBO Mon. —Ceylon has protested to the Soviet Union at an article and cartoon "Offensive to Ceylon Buddhists" which the Soviet Government newspaper Izvestia published on Saturday. The rartoon showed British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin kneeling before the sacred tooth of Buddha. Ceylon's High
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    FUNERAL OF LATE MR. WASLR
    135 5 More than 500 people attended the funeral of the late Mr. H. O. Waser, manag er of the Adelphi Hotel, at the Bidadari yesterday. Services were conducted by Rev. H. B. Amstutz. The pall-bearers were the Masonic Brothers, Messrs. R. W. Stainforth, W. E. Floyd,
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    R.A.F. Blasts Red Dens In Johore
    210 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. gOMBERS and fighter aircraft of the Royal Air Force based at Singapore blitzed bandit positions in North and South Johore in two devastating raids over the weekend. The first blow was struck at enemy concentrations in the jungles of Segamat where
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    PROF. KANDIAH IN SINGAPORE
    49 5 The Ceylon Tamils' Association entertained Professor A. Kandiah. of the Faculty of S'h'nccs. University of Ceylon, at a social function recently Prof. Kandiah assured the Association that the Ceylon Government would consider sympathetically- request* from local CeylOa-se students for admission to the University of Ceylon.
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    Hospital Shuts Doors
    50 5 AP. HONGKONG. Mon. The "Country Hospital," one of the leading hospitals in Shanghai, has decided to shut its doors because of "the critical financial condition." The hospital staff, consisting mainly of British nurses and a handful of Chinese nurses, is reported planning to leave for Hongkong soon.-AP.
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    NO-STOP FLIGHT
    17 5 LONDON, Mon. United State's jet fighter planes will begin flying the Atlantic nonstop this summer.
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    TULLOH DISPROVES LAW OF AVERAGES
    707 6  -  WHY FO UR O'CLOCK PAID WELL FOR A SECOND WIN By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winner*. HAVING a day out at Bukit Ttmah last Saturday by riding four winners in a row, and winning the Governor's Cup, Jockey Colin Tulloh must have proved
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    BAILEY EQUALS A RECORD
    74 6 Reuter. LONDON. Mon. MacDonald Bailey, West Indies sprinter, today equalled the official British 220 yards record of 21.2 seconds in winning his semi-final in the British Games intercountries competition here today. This record, made 36 years ago by Willie Applegarth, was lowered recently by Bailey by
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    Governor's Cup Holds Champagne
    99 6 A large gathering of racing folk and friends attended a dinner party on Sunday at the Majestic Hotel given by Mr. and Mrs. Eu Eng Hock of Port Swettenham. The function was to celebrate the winning of the Governor's Cup by Mr. Eu's Four O'Clock 11.
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    WALCOTT OUTPOINTS TEN HOFF
    136 6 Reuter-AAP. MANNHEIM, Mon. JERSEY Joe Walcott defeated Germany's heavyweight champion Hein Ten Hoff by a judge's decision in Germany s first big international ftoht sine# 1 the war. The verdict of the judges was unanimous. Walcott clearly outpunched the six feet four and half German who
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    THREE WORLD CHAMPIONS IN ACTION
    96 6 U.P. NEW YORK. Mon. Three world champions are sleted for action on this week's light holiday boxing schedule. However, only bantamweight champion Manuel Ortiz will risk his title. Ortiz will defend his 11$ pound crown again.st British Empire champion Vie. Toweel of Johannesburg. South Africa,
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    SURREY TITLES
    38 6 A.P. LONDON, Mon.—Britain's grass courts tennis season opened with the Surrey championships at Surbiton today and in the first round of the men's singles Marcel Tarlart of Egypt defeated G. Piercey of Britain 4-6. 6-4, 6-0.-A.P.
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    County Cricket Statistics
    282 6 LONDON, Monday. Positions in the English County Cricket Championships before the series now in progress are. Ist Inns, load No in niatch P W L. D. decision Lost Trawn Pts. Warwickshire 6 41 1 0 0 0 48 Northampton 5 2 1 1 1 i 0 28
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    England's "B" Soccer Team Causes Comment
    920 6 Reuter. LONDON, Monday. THE poor showing of England's "B" team during its three-match tour on the Continent has caused considerable comment at home. "Are these tours really necessary" is what quite a lot of people in England are today asking. They think such tours
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    AWANG BAKAR HERO OF MALAYS' 2-2 DRAW
    861 7 SING TAO'S WINNING SPELL BROKEN piY inimitable Awang Bal#%r burst bite tn«e lune- ii£ht ;&lt;K »in yesterday with another sterling pejforniiui&lt;e. Paying Ihe Singapore Malays again*' the Sing Tao team, he broke th*; tourists' winning sjm-II by scoring two goals to enable ft*
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    REFEREE STOPS BENNETT IN SEVENTH ROUND
    108 7 A.P. SYDNEY. Mon.—Australian bantamweight champion Elley Bennett. (8 st. 1\ lbs.), stopped the American Negro Vie Eisen. «8 st. 9k lbs.) today in seven rounds of the most hectic boxing seen at Sydney stadium for years. The tijjht was schedu cd to BQ 12
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    WORRELL AND WEEKES IN CENTURY STAND
    354 7 CARDIFF, Monday. ANOTHER century partnership between Frank Worrell and Everton Weekes was the feature of the West Indies batting against Glamorgan at Cardiff where a 15,000 crowd was provided with good holiday entertainment. The pair 101 in 80 minutes for the third wicket and
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    SOCCER IN BERLIN
    27 7 A.P. BERLIN. Mon. -Lee Qlrudins, France's soccer champions, today defeated the Admiral Club of Vienna 4-0 In Berlin's first all-foreign match since the war.—A.P.
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    WAR WICK IN GOOD POSITION
    356 7 Reuter and A.P LONDON, Men.: Bank holiday crowds tok advantage of the g x&gt;d weather today to watch the county cricket matches in most parts of the country and saw some veryinteresting games. Warwickshire the county leaders, scored a remarkable recovery to gain a commanding
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    Rest Declare Twee And Retain Clark Cup
    435 7 DISMISSED (or their; lowest total in the Conrad Clarke Cup match, the Europeans failed on the S.C.C. padang yesterday, by 72 runs, to avenge last year's defeat at tbe hand* of the Rest. Delayed by the rain play did, not commence till 1.30
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    TUANG MONG BEAT THE RASC 3-1
    100 7 In n dull pnd stow tfaflß* the Tian Muiia 0.8.A. beat the «1 (Vv. R.A.S.C. by three hop's to one in a Junior match at the 8.0.D. ground, yesterday. The Chines- forwards foiled the R.A.S.C. defence with short i»-esin; ;m't Md**ed a number of
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    FIVE IN A ROW
    20 7 A.P NEW YORK. Mon. -Jockey Red Atkinson rode five con secutivc winners at Belmont Park today.-A.P.
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    Draw For Women's Classes, Mens Doubles
    884 7 S.B.A. JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS The following are the forthcoming Singapore junior championship. FIRST OI'.XH KU: v*., Hongtnd Mak Kirn Lout i Mayflower) v low Mens I h m and Wong Food Won, (MemdJ. Onr Kek Bee and Th o Yoon Bene &lt;Cable Wirelessv v Seah
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    Surgeon Examines Compton
    93 7 Reuter. LONDON. Mon.—The M.C.C. are awaiting the renort of the orthopae- die surgeon who today examined Dents Cornpton. England and Middlesex cricketer. They are expected to issue a statement oi&gt; Coinpton's condition within the riext day or so. The M.C.C., in a statement later said a further
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    37 7 Mr. H O Waser. Genera' Manager of the Adelphi ft Viejsv hotels Ltd. passed awa; in the early hours of Wh'tmonday, 106% The funeral took place on the same day a* oJ3» p.m. at Bidadari Cemetery.
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    ACKNOWCEDGMKNT
    38 7 Mr. and Mrs. H. .T. Waser and {amlly thaok ail friends ajod staff of the Adelphi and 3a&gt; View Hotels for ttujir attendance and floral tributes at the tuncrai ot H. U. Waser. 'atlier. lather-in-law and grandfather.
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    Cloverlock Limps Into Hongkong
    193 8 Reuter. HONOKONfI. Mon. THE British ship. Cloverlock. \)'Z2 tuns, limped Into Hongkong today witn heavy damage above the waterllne from 11 sneii-hlts by a Chinese Nationalist warship on Anr. 23. Her crew, none oi whom were Injured, told oi a twohour chas ::i wiiic.i the warship
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL
    103 8 B.A.F. si., r. a Ait «•&lt;!«. K IH B Opening by Air Maisha.l h. J Foruaity 4.45 p.ni. PI 111.II MBit IKY AT 1 TPKB SKKAK«*«M)N. Opening by Mr. T. P. F. Ba«*NelOf at 7 Boundary Hoad in p m HI.NLsf: Y.Sl.C.A.. ().c s club 5
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    CINEMA
    170 8 CATHAY "on V» wn" with liene K&lt; Iv, Fiitik Mnaua ai.d Betty tl-nr it i.t,... 14... 4.15. 6 45 an-1 «.30 p.m. Al.BVMBKA- "K.n* Of The Ru&lt; ketincu 0 30. and 9.30 p.m. I'AYII.ION: Two licked To London" with Alan Curtus ard Muhcle Morgan at 4.1 6.3" and 9.30
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    SPORT
    45 8 SOPCF.Ii: St»r. l'o.a R ja v. K«»\ai Navy at .fa c:i Borar; Jnr. ill (Vrn'ul Lsi-i v. 1&gt;im. ai tievlanjf: Jnr. B1 C.Y.1IA. Haikow &gt;u S.O. at CY MA. t'KIKMILY: Outhr e C. v. S.LT. and i hunfr H a R»:iporf at harrt-r lark.
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    To Take Out The Bounce
    87 8 A.P. HONGKONG. Mon. Shanghai bank* may have to print larger cneques soon. The present cheques don't seem to have enough room tor all the information that the Communist authorities demand. It all boils down to the fact but; too many people are paying liieir taxes
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    300,000 RUSSIAN TROOPS IN CHINA
    158 8 A.P. TAIPEI, Monday. THE Chinese Nationalist Defence Ministry alleged today Soviet Russia had poured 300,000 troops into Red China. There was no way to confirm the accusation which followed an earlier one that under arrangements between Moscow and Red China 400,000 Soviet citizens would settle
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    MAC STUDIES LIE'S NOTE
    85 8 U.P. HONGKONG. Mon. A report from Canton said today that Trygve Lie's proposals regarding Chinese Communist participation in the United Nations arrived in Peking via Moscow and wete being studied by the Communist Government. The report, which did not state the source, said Uk! wants the
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    Students Attack Examiners
    97 8 BECAUSE PAPERS WERE DIFFICULT Reuter. CAIRO. Mon. Students of the Commerce Faculty of Fouad E' Awal University today attacked examiners because they found their examination papers difficult." Pc'ice intervened. Last night two British professors were injured by a 22-year-old medical student at the University, who later told
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    NON INTERVENTION
    24 8 U.P. The Stale Department declined to intervene in possible negotiations Ovv; uic future of the se Far Eastern colony 31 c»oa. -d.P.
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    RUSTY DIES
    16 8 U.P. KQBium TcvAti. idon. —Kusty, the fust whooping crane born in captivity, is dead.—v.P.
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    NOT SHAKESPEARE
    35 8 U.P. LONDON won erolessor Titherly soured to prove today, in a -+00 page dook that W'lha-n Ktanh-v. sixth Earl of Derby, was the man who wroi-e uue ina.,s attributed to William Shakespeare.- J.P.
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    H.K. POLICE DISARM REFUGEE RED TROOPS
    211 8 NATIONALISTS QUIT THE LADRONES U.P. HONGKONG, Monday. UTJNGKONG Police today began disarming scattered Communist troops who had taken refuge in British controlled territory as lighting lor the strategic islands at the mouth of the Pearl River appeared about over. The Nationalists have announced their
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    YARD TO PROBE MYSTERY AIR EXPLOSION
    114 8 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. —Scotland Yard flew a high officer to Paris this weekend to follow a new clue in the five-week-old mystery of an explosion in a Viking airliner —and today cloaked all developments In a security silence. Superintendent William kiKin.ii, trie detective who
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    CHIANG ADMITTED
    32 8 U.P. FLORENCE Italy. Mon.— The credentials committee of the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation voted tonight to damlt Nationalist China s delegates to the UNESCO conference here.— U.P.
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    U.S. Fears Another Rubber Crisis
    119 8 NEW YORK, Monday. A PPREHENSIVE rubber manufacturers warn that the United States may be approaching another crisis in the rubber industry'—this nation's "Achilles Heel" in World War 11. Because of threatened Communist aggression affecting Far Eastern rubber producing areas, plus rising costs of inadequate supplies
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    'I'm One Year Old, You Know'
    36 8 LITTLE Shirley Anne Manassch threw of party yesterday uitrwm. She tixi* vtlebrtthng her first birlhdop Shirtri&gt; m trtt• hue nttHnft her birthday tahe, uith mothvr'M help Mm, A Iff ifanuA*t;h.
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    Red Plan To Seize Berlin Foiled
    153 8 U.P. BERLIN. Monday. ■MAJOR General Maxwell Taylor, Berlin's American 111 Commandant, said tonight that ARM determination has forced the Communists to abandon their plans to seize Berlin during a six-day rally of 500.000 youths here. Taylor said that the "Allied victory" was reminiscent of
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    TROUBLESOME AIR PASSENGER
    57 8 U.P. CALIFORNIA. Mon. A California Central Airlines plane with 29 persons abroad made an emergency landing here after a passenger had accused the stewardess of serving poisoned coffee and pulled a do the pilot. After the arrest of the berserk passenger the plane safely completed its .light
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    JUST IN CASE
    65 8 BOMBAY. Mon Police today kepi s rict vijil along the wat irfroni and ordered the closure of city towers, normally open to the public, to forestall suit id. mpts b., a j-i ..'ts 10 a., t. th ir malricula Un examination. rtesults announced today registered 61 per
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    BRITONS FORGET, GO GAY
    162 8 Reuter. LONDON. Mon.—Britons forgot the dollar gap. the production drive and the cold war today to Join in the biggest and gayest spree since the war. With unlimited petrol for the first time since 1939 and more food and the fewest restrictions in years, they rushed
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    FORCED £s
    34 8 MOMBASA. Mon. The Kenya police ha-e contaetml Poland Yard about the numbers of forced pound fctefttnv notes being passed in East African ports by British seam-n. it *-as learned in Mombasa today.
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    ARMY CIVILIANS MEET STRACHEY
    246 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. FOUR representatives of the War Department Civilian Staffs Association met the War Minister, Mr. John Strachey, at H.Q., Malaya District, this morning. Present at the meeting on the Army side were the C.-in-C, FARELF, General Sir John Harding, the G.0.C., Malaya District, Major-General
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    MR. STRACHEY PRAISES THE A-B FIGHTERS
    678 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday THE War Minister, Mr. John Strachey, who visited Kajang today was full of praise for the officers and men of the army. He thanked them for the extremely fine and invaluable work they were doing Paying his first visit to at
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